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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   Secrecy; hiddenness. Scotland, UK, dialectal, uncountable

Etymology

From Middle English hidnes, hudnesse, from Old English ġehȳdnes (“comfort, security”), equivalent to hide + -ness.

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