Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Secrecy \Se"cre*cy\, n.; pl. {Secrecies}. [From {Secret}.]
   1. The state or quality of being hidden; as, his movements
      were detected in spite of their secrecy.

            The Lady Anne, Whom the king hath in secrecy long
            married.                              --Shak.

   2. That which is concealed; a secret. [R.] --Shak.

   3. Seclusion; privacy; retirement. ``The pensive secrecy of
      desert cell.'' --Milton.

   4. The quality of being secretive; fidelity to a secret;
      forbearance of disclosure or discovery.

            It is not with public as with private prayer; in
            this, rather secrecy is commanded than outward show.
                                                  --Hooker.