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SECRET

A truth or fact, known to one or few persons, that should be kept concealed from others. Secrets may be natural, promised, or entrusted. The obligation to confidentiality is binding by natural or revealed law. (Etym. Latin secretus, separate, out of the way, secret, from secernere, to put apart, separate.)