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“secrecy”
1. A concealment or a condition of being concealed or hidden: David's movements were detected in spite of their secrecy.
2. Etymology: existing from about 1423, secretee, "quality of being secret"; from Old French secré, a variant of secret which is from Latin secretus, "set apart, withdrawn, hidden"; originally the past participle of secernere, "to set apart"; which came from se-, "without, apart" with the extended meaning of "on one's own".
2. Etymology: existing from about 1423, secretee, "quality of being secret"; from Old French secré, a variant of secret which is from Latin secretus, "set apart, withdrawn, hidden"; originally the past participle of secernere, "to set apart"; which came from se-, "without, apart" with the extended meaning of "on one's own".
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cern-, cert-, cer-; cret-, creet-, cre-
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“secrecy”
(Latin: secret, secrecy; hidden, concealed, private)