secresy
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
secresy (uncountable)
- Obsolete spelling of secrecy
- 1742, Committee of Secresy, A further report from the Committee of Secresy, appointed to inquire into the conduct of ROBERT Earl of ORFORD, during the last ten years of his being First Commissioner of the Treasury, and Chancellor and Under-Treasurer of His Majesty's Exchequer.:
- 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter X, in Emma: […], volume III, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, page 181:
- “And do you really believe the affair to have been carrying on with such perfect secresy?—The Campbells, the Dixons, did none of them know of the engagement?”
- 1870, Robert Slater, Telegraphic code, to ensure secresy in the transmission of telegrams: