Secretist
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Secretist is a noun meaning A secretive person; a keeper of secrets.
Meaning
A secretive person; a keeper of secrets.
More Meanings
- A member of a secret society or a known society with secret ceremonies.
- (obsolete) A dealer in secrets or arcana.
Example Sentences
Boyle condemned "the avarice" of those "secretists" who secured profit through the practice of intellectual privacy .
An exhibitionist rather than a secretist, Crowley published much material that was previously hidden from the public.
In the old days the secretist party would have regarded this publication as a policy which led the nation in the direct line of "losing the war".
Laboratories were to be contrasted with the private shrines of "secretist” philosophers and Hermetics whom Boyle criticized for their refusal to communicate in public.
Word Forms
- secretists
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include secretmonger, insidiator, operative, whisperer, sneak, espiocrat.
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