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valis2From my awesome late 1800's thesaurus:
Concealment. (I was thinking of Occlumency, of course, which is what led to this.)
N. concealment; hiding; occultation, mystification.
seal of secrecy; screen; disguise; masquerade; masked battery; hiding place; cipher; palimpsest; freemasonry.
stealth, stealthiness, obreption, slyness &c. (cunning).
latitancy, seclusion, secrecy.
reticence; reserve; arrière pensée, suppression, evasion, white lie, misprision; silence.
latency; snake in the grass.
V. conceal, hide, secrete, stow away, put out of sight.
cover, screen, cloak, veil, shroud; draw the veil; eclipse; mask; disguise; ensconce, muffle, smother; whisper.
keep snug, keep dark; bury; sink, suppress; stifle, withhold, reserve; fence with a question.
keep one's own counsel; hold one's tongue; make no sign; not breathe a word; not let the right hand know what the left is doing; hide one's light under a bushel, bury one's talent in a napkin.
keep in the dark; blind the eyes.
be concealed; suffer an eclipse; lie perdu; lurk, sneak, skulk, slink, pussyfoot, prowl; steal along; play at bopeep; hide in holes and corners.
Adj. concealed; hidden; veiled; secret, recondite, mystic, cabalistic, occult, dark; cryptic; private, privy, in petto, auricular, clandestine, close, inviolate.
behind a screen; under an eclipse; in a mist; clouded, wrapt in clouds; buried; secluded.
irrevealable, inviolable; confidential; esoteric; not to be spoken of.
obreptitious, furtive, stealthy, feline; skulking; surreptitious, underhand, hole and corner; sly; secretive, evasive, noncommittal, reserved, reticent, uncommunicative, buttoned up; close as wax; taciturn. (Who can't help but think of Snape with this set?)
Adv. secretly; in one's sleeve, in holes and corners; in the dark.
januis clausis, with closed doors, à huis clos; hugger-mugger, à la derobée; under the rose; sub rosâ, en tapinois, in the background, aside, on the sly, with bated breath, sotto voce, in a whisper, without beat of drum, à la sourdine.
Phr. it must go no further; 'tell it not in Gath,' nobody the wiser.
All thesaurus entries
Concealment. (I was thinking of Occlumency, of course, which is what led to this.)
N. concealment; hiding; occultation, mystification.
seal of secrecy; screen; disguise; masquerade; masked battery; hiding place; cipher; palimpsest; freemasonry.
stealth, stealthiness, obreption, slyness &c. (cunning).
latitancy, seclusion, secrecy.
reticence; reserve; arrière pensée, suppression, evasion, white lie, misprision; silence.
latency; snake in the grass.
V. conceal, hide, secrete, stow away, put out of sight.
cover, screen, cloak, veil, shroud; draw the veil; eclipse; mask; disguise; ensconce, muffle, smother; whisper.
keep snug, keep dark; bury; sink, suppress; stifle, withhold, reserve; fence with a question.
keep one's own counsel; hold one's tongue; make no sign; not breathe a word; not let the right hand know what the left is doing; hide one's light under a bushel, bury one's talent in a napkin.
keep in the dark; blind the eyes.
be concealed; suffer an eclipse; lie perdu; lurk, sneak, skulk, slink, pussyfoot, prowl; steal along; play at bopeep; hide in holes and corners.
Adj. concealed; hidden; veiled; secret, recondite, mystic, cabalistic, occult, dark; cryptic; private, privy, in petto, auricular, clandestine, close, inviolate.
behind a screen; under an eclipse; in a mist; clouded, wrapt in clouds; buried; secluded.
irrevealable, inviolable; confidential; esoteric; not to be spoken of.
obreptitious, furtive, stealthy, feline; skulking; surreptitious, underhand, hole and corner; sly; secretive, evasive, noncommittal, reserved, reticent, uncommunicative, buttoned up; close as wax; taciturn. (Who can't help but think of Snape with this set?)
Adv. secretly; in one's sleeve, in holes and corners; in the dark.
januis clausis, with closed doors, à huis clos; hugger-mugger, à la derobée; under the rose; sub rosâ, en tapinois, in the background, aside, on the sly, with bated breath, sotto voce, in a whisper, without beat of drum, à la sourdine.
Phr. it must go no further; 'tell it not in Gath,' nobody the wiser.
All thesaurus entries
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Date: 2006-11-06 11:15 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-11-07 12:44 am (UTC)And you're inspiring me to do a dictionary entry this week. Woohoo!