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''surreptitious'' ▫ᴱᴺ｜Definition｜1st｜20260331180822-00-⌔
surreptitious - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
English
Adjective
surreptitious (comparative more surreptitious, superlative most surreptitious)
- Stealthy, furtive, well hidden, covert (especially movements).
- ✤ He read the letter aloud. Sophia listened with the studied air of one for whom, even in these days, a title possessed some surreptitious allurement.1
- ✤ It is also worth noting the case law on prisoners’correspondence which establishes that interception of a person’s communications need not be surreptitious in order to amount to an interference with respect to Art 8 (1) [ECHR].2
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin surrēptīcius (“furtive, clandestine”), from surrēpō (“to creep along”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA: /ˌsʌɹɪpˈtɪʃəs/
- (US) IPA: /səˌɹɛpˈtɪʃəs/, /ˌsʌɹəpˈtɪʃəs/, /ˌsɛɹəpˈtɪʃəs/
- Audio (US): 🔊
- Rhymes: -ɪʃəs
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Link to original Footnotes
1921, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC: ↩
1998, Lee A. Bygrave, “Data Protection Pursuant to the Right to Privavy in Human Rights Treaties”, in International Journal of Law and Information Technology, volume 6, number 3, pages 260–261: ↩
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