Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act or process of getting in a stealthy or surreptitious manner, or by craft.
- noun A coming unperceived; a stealthy entry or approach.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act or process of getting in a surreptitious manner, or by craft or stealth.
- noun A coming unperceived or suddenly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The obtaining of something in a
surreptitious manner, or bycraft orstealth . - noun An
unperceived orsudden arrival .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Therefore the people are to be taught to abstain from violence to one another's person by private revenges, from violation of conjugal honour, and from forcible rapine and fraudulent surreption of one another's goods.
Leviathan 2007
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And the spoiling a man of his goods by terror of death or wounds, than by clandestine surreption.
Leviathan 2007
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And by clandestine surreption, than by consent fraudulently obtained.
Leviathan 2007
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It comes from the Latin surreptitius, “obtained by surreption,” with the rep from rapere, “to quickly seize or snatch,” also the root of rapid and rape.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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Before that, and perhaps unrelatedly, we have the Latin clam, “secretly, in private”; the m changed to n, which led to clandestinus, “secret, hidden”—and to the work of those who practice legal surreption in the clandestine service.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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It comes from the Latin surreptitius, “obtained by surreption,” with the rep from rapere, “to quickly seize or snatch,” also the root of rapid and rape.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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Before that, and perhaps unrelatedly, we have the Latin clam, “secretly, in private”; the m changed to n, which led to clandestinus, “secret, hidden”—and to the work of those who practice legal surreption in the clandestine service.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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And by clandestine surreption, than by consent fraudulently obtained.
Leviathan, or, The matter, forme, & power of a common-wealth ecclesiasticall and civill 1651
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Therefore the people are to be taught to abstain from violence to one another's person by private revenges, from violation of conjugal honour, and from forcible rapine and fraudulent surreption of one another's goods.
Leviathan, or, The matter, forme, & power of a common-wealth ecclesiasticall and civill 1651
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And the spoiling a man of his goods by terror of death or wounds, than by clandestine surreption.
Leviathan, or, The matter, forme, & power of a common-wealth ecclesiasticall and civill 1651
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