Definition of Secretest

1. secret [adj] - See also: secret

Lexicographical Neighbors of Secretest

secretary bird
secretary birds
secretarybird
secretarybirds
secretarying
secretarylike
secretaryship
secretaryships
secretase
secrete
secrete-metory
secreted
secreter
secreters
secretes
secretest
secretin
secretin test
secreting
secretins
secretion
secretion vector
secretionary
secretions
secretist
secretists
secretitious
secretive
secretively
secretiveness

Literary usage of Secretest

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

1. Passages from the French and Italian Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1876)
"Before we went away, Powers took us into a room apart — apparently the secretest room he had — and showed us some tools and machinery, all of his own ..."

2. The Political Works of James I by James (1918)
"men, to be very wane in all their secretest actions, and whatsoever ... the least circumstance of their secretest drifts: Which should make Kings the more ..."

3. The Political Works of James I by James (1918)
"men, to be very warte in all their secretest actions, and whatsoeuer ... the least circumstance of their secretest drifts: Which should make Kings the more ..."

4. A Miscellany Containing: Richard of Bury's Philobiblon, the Basilikon Dōron by Henry Morley (1888)
"Which should make Kings the more careful], not to harbour the secretest thought in their minde, but such as in the owne time they shall not be ashamed ..."

5. Illustrations of Tennyson by John Churton Collins (1891)
"The epithet ' secretest' in The Poet is Shakespeare's ' secretest man of blood ' (Macbeth, act iii. sc. 4). So too ' the golden stars. ..."

6. English Usage: Studies in the History and Uses of English Words and Phrases by John Lesslie Hall (1917)
"Tennyson, secretest, absoluter. It may be added that the comparison by more and ... Tennyson in The Poet says, With echoing feet he threaded The secretest ..."

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