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"I dare say […] that Byron and de Sade […] have been perhaps the two greatest inspirations of our moderns, one openly and visibly, the other clandestine - though not too clandestine."--Sainte-Beuve, 1843, tr. Geerinck

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Clandestine is an adjective meaning that its reference is something secret or guerrilla in nature, such as certain activities executed by spies.

Etymology

From Latin clandestinus. From an earlier adverb *clam-de (“secretly”) (from clam and -de, also seen in unde, etc.), to which the suffix -stīnus was added.

Synonyms

See also

censorship, hidden, illegal, illicit, secret




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