Secretist

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A dealer in secrets or arcana. obsolete

    "Boyle condemned "the avarice" of those "secretists" who secured profit through the practice of intellectual privacy ."

  2. 2
    A secretive person; a keeper of secrets.

    "An exhibitionist rather than a secretist, Crowley published much material that was previously hidden from the public."

  3. 3
    A member of a secret society or a known society with secret ceremonies.

    "No oathbound secretist is free to obey God, or church, or State; he must obey the behest of an irresponsible society, or as it may prove to be, a band of infamous conspirators."

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"Boyle condemned "the avarice" of those "secretists" who secured profit through the practice of intellectual privacy ."

Etymology

From secret + -ist.

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