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

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 Melville, Herman

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 Hazlitt, William Carew

The woman became more anxious to know; the secretness of the thing, and the silence of the youth, did but inflame her curiosity.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 by Various

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 Hoskins, Gayle Porter