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secrecy

/ˈsiːkɹəsi/ nom B2

En français : secret, secrétisme

  1. Concealment; the condition of being secret or hidden. (countable, uncountable) · I was sworn to secrecy.
  2. The habit of keeping secrets. (countable, uncountable)

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A promise of secrecy was of course very dutifully given, but it could not be kept without difficulty; for the curiosity excited by his long absence burst forth in such very direct questions on his return, as required some ingenuity to evade, and he was at the same time exercising great self-denial, for he was longing to publish his prosperous love.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 144 · B2
Having said thus much, I feel no doubt of your secrecy.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 233 · B2
To no creature had it been revealed, where secrecy was possible, except to Elizabeth; and from all Bingley’s connections her brother was particularly anxious to conceal it, from that very wish which Elizabeth had long ago attributed to him, of their becoming hereafter her own.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 303 · B2
Elizabeth told her the motives of her secrecy.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 354 · B2

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