Designed to elude detection. Synonym:hidden."A secret passage" , "The secret compartment in the desk"
7.
Hidden from general view or use. Synonyms:privy, secluded."A secluded romantic spot" , "A secret garden"
8.
(of information) given in confidence or in secret. Synonym:confidential."Their secret communications"
9.
Indulging only covertly.
10.
Having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding. Synonyms:mysterious, mystic, mystical, occult, orphic."The mystical style of Blake" , "Occult lore" , "The secret learning of the ancients"
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The next to highest level of official classification for documents.
noun
1.
Something that should remain hidden from others (especially information that is not to be passed on). "He tried to keep his drinking a secret"
2.
Information known only to a special group. Synonym:arcanum.
3.
Something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained. Synonyms:closed book, enigma, mystery."It remains one of nature's secrets"
...Secret Love, or the Maiden Queen, 1668, is a tragicomedy. In the preface he discusses a curious question, whether a poet can judge well of his own productions? and determines very justly, that, of the plan and disposition, and ... — Lives of the Poets, Vol. 1 • Samuel Johnson Read full book for free!
... I know it, my dear! Have I not watched you both? I am already keeping your secret, never fear. Tell me only what you please, but you need not tell me to have your good-will, for my heart is ... — Cupid's Middleman • Edward B. Lent Read full book for free!
... one most competent to speak, but it was the profound religious experience of one who had broken out of the charmed circle, and whose intense earnestness melted all opposition. The converts she made needed no after-training. It was when you saw she was opening some secret record of her own experience, that the painful silence and breathless interest told the deep effect and lasting impression her words were making on minds, that afterward ... — History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I • Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage Read full book for free!
... such commandments—it was done in the age of Racine and in the age of Pope—but the wise critic knows that in literature the rules are less important than the "inner light." Hence, criticism at its highest is not a theorist's attempt to impose iron laws on writers: it is an attempt to capture the secret of that "inner light" and of those who possess it and to communicate it to others. It is also an attempt to define the conditions in which the "inner light" has most happily manifested itself, and to judge ... — The Art of Letters • Robert Lynd Read full book for free!
... moods of the Fraser River, the habits of its thronging tenants, as no other man has ever known them before or since. He knew every isle and inlet along the coast, every boulder, the sand-bars, the still pools, the temper of the tides. He knew the spawning grounds, the secret streams that fed the larger rivers, the outlets of rock-bound lakes, the turns and tricks of swirling rapids. He knew the haunts of bird and beast and fish and fowl, and was master of the arts and artifice that man ... — Legends of Vancouver • E. Pauline Johnson Read full book for free!
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