secrecyn.

/ˈsiːkrəsi/

Forms: α. Middle English secretee, 1500s secretie, secretye; β. 1500s–1600s secrecie (1500s secricie,), secresie, 1500s–1800s secresy, 1500s– secrecy.

Etymology: In 15–16th cent. secretee, -tie, apparently < secre adj. or secret adj. + -ty suffix¹ or -y suffix³. Compare medieval Latin secretia a royal treasury. Late in the 16th cent. altered to secrecie, apparently after words like primacy n.

1. The quality of being secret or of not revealing secrets; the action, practice, or habit of keeping things secret.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > [noun] > disposition to secrecy, secretiveness

secrecy1423

secretnessa1475

privacy1624

uncommunicativeness1751

snugness1778

secretiveness1815

cageyness1950

α.

1423 Kingis Quair xcvii Stude at the dure fair~calling hir vschere, That coude his office doon In connyng wise, And secretee, hir thrifty chamberere.

β. 1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 116 If you conceale this I must thinke that..you begin to suspect my secrecy.1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. iv. 106 Constant you are, But yet a woman, and for secrecy No Lady closer. 1616 F. Bacon Advice to G. Villiers in Wks. (1872) VI. 41 And that the servants attending the clerks of the council be also bound to secrecy.1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. 50 By reason of his singular secrecy in keeping his purposes unknowne.a1720 J. Sheffield Wks. (1753) II. 167 For who could expect secrecy in such a slave of Cleopatra.1778 F. Burney Evelina III. viii. 89 I have entreated Mrs. Selwyn to observe the strictest secrecy.1819 W. Scott Let. 4 Mar. (1933) V. 314 An intelligent friend in whose stile of expression prudence and secrecy his Grace could put perfect reliance.1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xv. 532 He arranged his plan with characteristic prudence, firmness, and secresy.1876 J. B. Mozley Univ. Serm. (1877) iv. 88 We appear to know a great deal of one another, and yet, if we reflect, what a vast system of secrecy the moral world is.

a. The condition or fact of being secret or concealed. in secrecy: secretly.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > [noun]

dighelnessc1000

dernship?c1225

derna1250

concealmenta1325

hidnessc1330

hiddennessc1380

privy1384

secrenessc1386

secre1390

stillnessa1400

secretnessa1475

hodelnessec1475

scuggery?a1500

hugger-mugger1529

closeness1562

secrecy1563

privatenessa1586

covertness1592

hugger-mug1654

privacy1702

conspiracy of silence1865

hush-hush1973

α.

1563 W. Baldwin et al. Myrrour for Magistrates (new ed.) Hastings xc Your polytyke secretes gard with trusty loyaltye So shall they lurk in most assured secretye.

1581 M. Hanmer Iesuites Banner D 3 His sacrificing Priestes hearing confession were woonte to reueale unto him, all that in secretie was deliuered vnto them.

β. 1575 G. Gascoigne Glasse of Gouernem. iv. iv. Iii^v Because in all thinges Secresie is a great furderaunce, it shalbe best that we draw our selues apart vnto one of your houses.a1593 C. Marlowe Edward II (1594) sig. D2 A friend of mine told me in secrecie, That hees repeald, and sent for backe againe.1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII iii. ii. 404 The Lady Anne, Whom the King hath in secrecie long married, This day was view'd in open, as his Queene. 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xix. 96 Nor is there any place,..wherein an Assemblie can receive Counsell with secrecie.1756 E. Burke Vindic. Nat. Society 56 On his Return to Court, he was obliged to enter Rome with all the Secrecy of a Criminal.1819 J. Mackintosh Parl. Suffrage in Wks. (1846) III. 227 The first objection to this proposal is, that the Ballot would not produce secrecy.1881 G. M. Fenn Vicar's People xlvi [He] removed his tobacco quid, and stuffed the dirty-brown, wet morsel into the secrecy of his trousers pocket.

†b. Retirement, seclusion. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > [noun]

privity?c1225

reclusionc1430

abstractionc1450

recess?1532

privacy1534

solitariousness1545

retirea1554

secess1570

privatenessa1586

retirednessa1586

retirement1603

secrecy1607

closeness1612

shadow1612

privatea1616

recluseness1648

abstractednessa1653

recluse1665

abscondence1694

seclusion1785

seclusiveness1822

retiracy1824

secludedness1835

retraite1843

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 37 The males giue great honor to the females great with young, during the time of their secrecie.

1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 15 There is a question, whether when they be in this secrecie or drouzines, they awake not to eate.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost viii. 427 Thou in thy secresie although alone, Best with thy self accompanied, seek'st not Social communication.

a. quasi-concrete. Something which is or has been kept secret; a secret; the secret nature or condition of something. Often collective singular or plural, secret matters, mysteries. Obsolete or archaic.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > [noun] > something concealed, a secret

derna1000

counsel1377

secrec1386

dernheada1400

secretnessc1425

secrecyc1450

secret1450

concealment1598

reservation1612

cabal1631

recess1646

occult1648

reserve1680

state secret1822

reserving1844

inédit1910

α.

c1450 J. Lydgate Secrees 38 The which book..Whylom compyled by Arystotilees, Which in sapience of Secretees hath the name.

1517 Tunstall in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. I. 134 Besids al other maters contenyd in our Lettres..oon is in them untowchyd by cause I wold not make my clerke privey to the secretie theroff.

β. 1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 7 To answer stranger ciuely, but shew him not thy secresie.1594 Willobie his Auisa xliiii. f. 40 H. W...pyneth a while in secret griefe, at length..bewrayeth the secresy of his disease vnto his familiar friend W. S.1598 B. Yong tr. A. Pérez 2nd Pt. Diana in tr. J. de Montemayor Diana 308 A famous Shepherd..to whose skill and knowledge, it seemed, nature it selfe with all her secrecies was subject.1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet ii. ii. 296 So shall my anticipation preuent your discouery, and your secrecie to the King & Queene. a1617 P. Baynes Comm. Ephes. (1658) Contents The doctrine of our salvation is a hidden secrecy.1633 J. Ford Broken Heart ii. iii. sig. D4 I'me not inquisitiue Of secrecies without an inuitation.1645 J. Milton Tetrachordon 44 Leaving secrecies to conscience.1660 Char. Italy 85 In the Secresies and Operations of Medecine none could excel Fracastorius [etc.].1665 R. Brathwait Comment Two Tales Chaucer (1901) 20 He solemnly swears his Host to keep counsel in a secrecy of such high consequence.1893 F. Thompson Poems 50 I in their delicate fellowship was one—Drew the bolt of Nature's secrecies.

†b. The secret parts (of a person). Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > sex organs > [noun]

shapea1000

shameOE

i-cundeOE

memberc1300

privy memberc1325

kindc1330

privitiesc1375

harness1382

shameful parts1382

genitoriesa1387

partc1390

tailc1390

genitalsa1393

thingc1405

genitalc1450

privy parts1533

secret1535

loin?1541

genitures1548

filthy parts1553

shamefulness1561

ware1561

meatc1564

natural places1569

secret members1577

lady ware1592

natural parts1601

lady's ware1608

gear1611

private parts1623

groin1631

pudendums1634

natural1650

privacies1656

sex1664

secrecyc1675

nudities1677

affair1749

sexual parts1753

person1824

sex organ1847

privates1940

naughty bits1972

c1675 in Roxburghe Ballads (1890) VII. 59 A shirt out of his Cloak~bag presently plucked he, And put it on the woman to cover her secresie.

†4. The condition of being entrusted with a person's secrets; intimate acquaintance, confidence.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > [noun] > knowledge of secrets

privity1560

secrecy1577

privacy1589

self-consciousness1655

the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > [noun] > intimacy > condition of being entrusted with secrets

secrecy1577

1577 M. Hanmer tr. Bp. Eusebius in Aunc. Eccl. Hist. viii. xxv. 165 Euen he who was of his secretie [1619 secrecy] and companion at meate.

a1592 R. Greene Hist. Orlando Furioso (1594) sig. Ciii But Madame marke a while, and you shall see, Your Father shake him off from secrecie.

1595 E. Spenser Colin Clouts come Home Againe sig. D2^v By creeping close into his secrecie.

1671 H. M. Life in tr. Erasmus Colloq. sig. A2 He..betook himself to a Monastery of regular Cannons, where for some years he had the secresie of Gulielmus Hermannus of Buda a very studious and diligent youth.

Compounds

secrecy system n. a system for ensuring the secrecy of transmitted speech by scrambling it at the transmitter.

ΚΠ

1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 752/2 Secrecy (or privacy) system, modification of speech-frequencies within the speech-band, so that during transmission from a radio transmitter to a receiver the signal is unintelligible and cannot be tapped.

1949 Bell System Techn. Jrnl. 28 656 (title) Communication theory of secrecy systems.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	secrecy
释义	secrecyn. /ˈsiːkrəsi/ Forms: α. Middle English secretee, 1500s secretie, secretye; β. 1500s–1600s secrecie (1500s secricie,), secresie, 1500s–1800s secresy, 1500s– secrecy. Etymology: In 15–16th cent. secretee, -tie, apparently < secre adj. or secret adj. + -ty suffix¹ or -y suffix³. Compare medieval Latin secretia a royal treasury. Late in the 16th cent. altered to secrecie, apparently after words like primacy n. 1. The quality of being secret or of not revealing secrets; the action, practice, or habit of keeping things secret. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > [noun] > disposition to secrecy, secretiveness secrecy1423 secretnessa1475 privacy1624 uncommunicativeness1751 snugness1778 secretiveness1815 cageyness1950 α. 1423 Kingis Quair xcvii Stude at the dure fair~calling hir vschere, That coude his office doon In connyng wise, And secretee, hir thrifty chamberere. β. 1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 116 If you conceale this I must thinke that..you begin to suspect my secrecy.1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. iv. 106 Constant you are, But yet a woman, and for secrecy No Lady closer. View more context for this quotation1616 F. Bacon Advice to G. Villiers in Wks. (1872) VI. 41 And that the servants attending the clerks of the council be also bound to secrecy.1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. 50 By reason of his singular secrecy in keeping his purposes unknowne.a1720 J. Sheffield Wks. (1753) II. 167 For who could expect secrecy in such a slave of Cleopatra.1778 F. Burney Evelina III. viii. 89 I have entreated Mrs. Selwyn to observe the strictest secrecy.1819 W. Scott Let. 4 Mar. (1933) V. 314 An intelligent friend in whose stile of expression prudence and secrecy his Grace could put perfect reliance.1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xv. 532 He arranged his plan with characteristic prudence, firmness, and secresy.1876 J. B. Mozley Univ. Serm. (1877) iv. 88 We appear to know a great deal of one another, and yet, if we reflect, what a vast system of secrecy the moral world is. 2. a. The condition or fact of being secret or concealed. in secrecy: secretly. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > [noun] dighelnessc1000 dernship?c1225 derna1250 concealmenta1325 hidnessc1330 hiddennessc1380 privy1384 secrenessc1386 secre1390 stillnessa1400 secretnessa1475 hodelnessec1475 scuggery?a1500 hugger-mugger1529 closeness1562 secrecy1563 privatenessa1586 covertness1592 hugger-mug1654 privacy1702 conspiracy of silence1865 hush-hush1973 α. 1563 W. Baldwin et al. Myrrour for Magistrates (new ed.) Hastings xc Your polytyke secretes gard with trusty loyaltye So shall they lurk in most assured secretye. 1581 M. Hanmer Iesuites Banner D 3 His sacrificing Priestes hearing confession were woonte to reueale unto him, all that in secretie was deliuered vnto them. β. 1575 G. Gascoigne Glasse of Gouernem. iv. iv. Iii^v Because in all thinges Secresie is a great furderaunce, it shalbe best that we draw our selues apart vnto one of your houses.a1593 C. Marlowe Edward II (1594) sig. D2 A friend of mine told me in secrecie, That hees repeald, and sent for backe againe.1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII iii. ii. 404 The Lady Anne, Whom the King hath in secrecie long married, This day was view'd in open, as his Queene. View more context for this quotation1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xix. 96 Nor is there any place,..wherein an Assemblie can receive Counsell with secrecie.1756 E. Burke Vindic. Nat. Society 56 On his Return to Court, he was obliged to enter Rome with all the Secrecy of a Criminal.1819 J. Mackintosh Parl. Suffrage in Wks. (1846) III. 227 The first objection to this proposal is, that the Ballot would not produce secrecy.1881 G. M. Fenn Vicar's People xlvi [He] removed his tobacco quid, and stuffed the dirty-brown, wet morsel into the secrecy of his trousers pocket. †b. Retirement, seclusion. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > [noun] privity?c1225 reclusionc1430 abstractionc1450 recess?1532 privacy1534 solitariousness1545 retirea1554 secess1570 privatenessa1586 retirednessa1586 retirement1603 secrecy1607 closeness1612 shadow1612 privatea1616 recluseness1648 abstractednessa1653 recluse1665 abscondence1694 seclusion1785 seclusiveness1822 retiracy1824 secludedness1835 retraite1843 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 37 The males giue great honor to the females great with young, during the time of their secrecie. 1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 15 There is a question, whether when they be in this secrecie or drouzines, they awake not to eate. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost viii. 427 Thou in thy secresie although alone, Best with thy self accompanied, seek'st not Social communication. View more context for this quotation 3. a. quasi-concrete. Something which is or has been kept secret; a secret; the secret nature or condition of something. Often collective singular or plural, secret matters, mysteries. Obsolete or archaic. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > [noun] > something concealed, a secret derna1000 counsel1377 secrec1386 dernheada1400 secretnessc1425 secrecyc1450 secret1450 concealment1598 reservation1612 cabal1631 recess1646 occult1648 reserve1680 state secret1822 reserving1844 inédit1910 α. c1450 J. Lydgate Secrees 38 The which book..Whylom compyled by Arystotilees, Which in sapience of Secretees hath the name. 1517 Tunstall in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. I. 134 Besids al other maters contenyd in our Lettres..oon is in them untowchyd by cause I wold not make my clerke privey to the secretie theroff. β. 1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 7 To answer stranger ciuely, but shew him not thy secresie.1594 Willobie his Auisa xliiii. f. 40 H. W...pyneth a while in secret griefe, at length..bewrayeth the secresy of his disease vnto his familiar friend W. S.1598 B. Yong tr. A. Pérez 2nd Pt. Diana in tr. J. de Montemayor Diana 308 A famous Shepherd..to whose skill and knowledge, it seemed, nature it selfe with all her secrecies was subject.1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet ii. ii. 296 So shall my anticipation preuent your discouery, and your secrecie to the King & Queene. View more context for this quotationa1617 P. Baynes Comm. Ephes. (1658) Contents The doctrine of our salvation is a hidden secrecy.1633 J. Ford Broken Heart ii. iii. sig. D4 I'me not inquisitiue Of secrecies without an inuitation.1645 J. Milton Tetrachordon 44 Leaving secrecies to conscience.1660 Char. Italy 85 In the Secresies and Operations of Medecine none could excel Fracastorius [etc.].1665 R. Brathwait Comment Two Tales Chaucer (1901) 20 He solemnly swears his Host to keep counsel in a secrecy of such high consequence.1893 F. Thompson Poems 50 I in their delicate fellowship was one—Drew the bolt of Nature's secrecies. †b. The secret parts (of a person). Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > sex organs > [noun] shapea1000 shameOE i-cundeOE memberc1300 privy memberc1325 kindc1330 privitiesc1375 harness1382 shameful parts1382 genitoriesa1387 partc1390 tailc1390 genitalsa1393 thingc1405 genitalc1450 privy parts1533 secret1535 loin?1541 genitures1548 filthy parts1553 shamefulness1561 ware1561 meatc1564 natural places1569 secret members1577 lady ware1592 natural parts1601 lady's ware1608 gear1611 private parts1623 groin1631 pudendums1634 natural1650 privacies1656 sex1664 secrecyc1675 nudities1677 affair1749 sexual parts1753 person1824 sex organ1847 privates1940 naughty bits1972 c1675 in Roxburghe Ballads (1890) VII. 59 A shirt out of his Cloak~bag presently plucked he, And put it on the woman to cover her secresie. †4. The condition of being entrusted with a person's secrets; intimate acquaintance, confidence. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > [noun] > knowledge of secrets privity1560 secrecy1577 privacy1589 self-consciousness1655 the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > [noun] > intimacy > condition of being entrusted with secrets secrecy1577 1577 M. Hanmer tr. Bp. Eusebius in Aunc. Eccl. Hist. viii. xxv. 165 Euen he who was of his secretie [1619 secrecy] and companion at meate. a1592 R. Greene Hist. Orlando Furioso (1594) sig. Ciii But Madame marke a while, and you shall see, Your Father shake him off from secrecie. 1595 E. Spenser Colin Clouts come Home Againe sig. D2^v By creeping close into his secrecie. 1671 H. M. Life in tr. Erasmus Colloq. sig. A2 He..betook himself to a Monastery of regular Cannons, where for some years he had the secresie of Gulielmus Hermannus of Buda a very studious and diligent youth. Compounds secrecy system n. a system for ensuring the secrecy of transmitted speech by scrambling it at the transmitter. ΚΠ 1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 752/2 Secrecy (or privacy) system, modification of speech-frequencies within the speech-band, so that during transmission from a radio transmitter to a receiver the signal is unintelligible and cannot be tapped. 1949 Bell System Techn. Jrnl. 28 656 (title) Communication theory of secrecy systems. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1423
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