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  • noun Obsolete spelling of secrecy.

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Examples

  • The grace of thee in secresy and patentest display?

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • But a kind of secresy, an ambiguous atmosphere, encompassed, from the first, alike the speaker and the doctrine; and in that world of fluctuating and ambiguous characters, the alerter mind certainly, pondering on this novel reign of the spirit -- what it might actually be -- would hardly fail to find in

    Giordano Bruno Walter Pater 1866

  • But a kind of secresy, an ambiguous atmosphere, encompassed, from the first, alike the speaker and the doctrine; and in that world of fluctuating and ambiguous characters, the alerter mind certainly, pondering on this novel reign of the spirit -- what it might actually be -- would hardly fail to find in

    Giordano Bruno Walter Pater 1866

  • But a kind of secresy, an ambiguous atmosphere, encompassed, from the first, alike the speaker and the doctrine; and in that world of fluctuating and ambiguous characters, the alerter mind certainly, pondering on this novel reign of the spirit -- what it might actually be -- would hardly fail to find in

    Giordano Bruno Walter Pater 1866

  • Yet since the sacrifice to which she had agreed must soon make it indisputably their own, she determined to deal with them openly; and acknowledged, therefore, in her letter, her marriage without disguise, but begged their patience and secresy, and promised, in a short time, the most honourable retribution and satisfaction.

    Cecilia 2008

  • The action of leaving her house, whether quietly or forcibly, could not but instantly authenticate the reports spread by the Egglestons of her marriage: to hope therefore for secresy any longer would be folly, and Mr

    Cecilia 2008

  • Regarding your question about why the need for secresy would be maintained after de Vere's death, there are as many possible answers to this as to why he would "put on an antic disposition" of disguise in the first place.

    NPR on the Shakespeare Authorship Question, Part One: Drama vs Realism Bardiac 2008

  • Favoured by the secresy of the ballot, it succeeded in placing its nominees in all the responsible offices in several of the States.

    The Englishwoman in America 2007

  • But in all these things, she enjoins secresy, which the doctor has promised.

    Pamela 2006

  • Again I enjoined strict secresy, as to this particular; which was promised by the widows, as well as for themselves, as for Miss

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

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