secretness
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
He contributed to the quiet he wished for by offering no violence, no contention, and to do this he had to retire into secretness, since there is some violence in everyone.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
I marvel greatly thou dost me so atwite Of the doubt, that thou hast of my secretness: As secret as thyself I shall be doubtless.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 by William Carew Hazlitt
He has tales of a thousand incarnations hidden away in secretness.
From AE in the Irish Theosophist by George William Russell
She was accompanied by her husband, a young Chinese of high birth, who manifested no more signs of activity to an outward world than a baffling secretness.
From Peter the Brazen A Mystery Story of Modern China by Gayle Porter Hoskins
Now the continualness, the secretness, yet the always present domesticness of our love; how may we best compass that, without jeopardizing the ever-sacred memory I hinted of?
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
Random Word
Spin the wheel and learn a new word!
Get a word