secret
/ˈsiː.kɹɪt/ noun A2- A piece of knowledge that is hidden and intended to be kept hidden. · "Can you keep a secret?" "Yes." "So can I."
- The key or principle by which something is made clear; the knack. · The secret to a long-lasting marriage is compromise.
- Something not understood or known.
- Private seclusion. · The work was done in secret, so that nobody could object.
- A form of steel skullcap.
- Any prayer spoken inaudibly and not aloud; especially, one of the prayers in the Tridentine Mass, immediately following the "orate, fratres", said inaudibly by the celebrant.
Plural secrets
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A secret, kept from all the rest,
Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow, fringed with alders and ladies’ eardrops and traversed by a brook that had its source away back in the woods of the old Cuthbert place; it was reputed to be an intricate, headlong brook in its earlier course through those woods, with dark secrets of pool and cascade; but by the time it reached Lynde’s Hollow it was a quiet, well-conducted little stream, for not even a brook could run past Mrs.
“Wild horses won’t drag the secret from me,” promised Anne solemnly.
“How would wild horses drag a secret from a person anyhow?”
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