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Definition of Secret police
1. Noun. A police force that operates in secrecy (usually against persons suspected of treason or sedition).
Definition of Secret police
1. Noun. A police force operating in secrecy and outside the normal boundaries of law, usually in support of a totalitarian government to suppress political dissent. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Secret Police
Literary usage of Secret police
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The secret police, more commonly known as detectives, are not uniformed. ...
The secret police of the United States government are known as secret service ..."
2. Palmer's Index to "The Times" Newspaper (1890)
"... secret police, by a Female. Nihilist, 13/ 9s ' ; • and Austria. 23 / 6 • ' /
and Bokhara, 13 m 6 s ' and the Brazilian Republic, 5/ 5 d Army cf, ..."
3. The Secret Societies of All Ages and Countries by Charles William Heckethorn (1897)
"The Revolution abolished this secret police as immoral and illegal; but it was,
as a political engine, re-established under the Directory, ..."
4. Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1835)
"The end of the high police is obtained chiefly by means of the secret police—that
cancer which eats into the vitals of society, and the pollution of which ..."
5. Free Russia by William Hepworth Dixon (1870)
"secret police. THE new principle of referring things to a popular vote is coming
into play on every side; nowhere in a form more striking than in the courts ..."
6. Free Russia by William Hepworth Dixon (1870)
"secret police. THE new principle of referring things to a popular vote is coming
into play on every side; nowhere in a form more striking than in the courts ..."
7. Manual of Political Ethics by Francis Lieber (1875)
"secret police.—Delatores and Mouchards.—The obligation of informing against
intended or committed Offences. XV. " STRANGER, tell the Lacedaemonians that we ..."
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