Lexic.us

Definition of Secretly

1. Adverb. In secrecy; not openly. "They arranged to meet in secret"

2. Adverb. Not openly; inwardly. "Hoped secretly she would change her mind"

Definition of Secretly

1. adv. In a secret manner.

Definition of Secretly

1. Adverb. In secret, covertly. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Secretly

1. in a secret manner [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Secretly

secretin secretin test secreting secretins secretion secretion vector secretionary secretions secretist secretists

secretitious secretive secretively secretiveness secretivenesses secretly (current term) secretness secretoglobin secretoglobins secretogogue

secretogranin secretogranins secretome secretomes secretomotor secretomotor nerve secretoneurin secretor factor secretories

Literary usage of Secretly

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"... many of whom feigned submission, though secretly maintaining Lutheran views. A considerable number went into exile and poverty, some 600 going from ..."

2. History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France: From the by William Francis Patrick Napier (1842)
"... the frontiers fringed as they were with hostile armies, the interior suffering under war requisitions, the people secretly hating the French, ..."

3. The Puritans: Or, The Church, Court, and Parliament of England, During the by Samuel Hopkins (1861)
"... BROUGHT BEFORE THE COMMISSIONERS secretly. — UPBRAIDED AND INSULTED. — CHARGES MADE BY THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL. — MR. CARTWRIGHT AGAIN REFUSES THE OATH. ..."

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