What's the difference between secrecy and secrely?
Secrecy
Definition:
(n.) The state or quality of being hidden; as, his movements were detected in spite of their secrecy.
(n.) That which is concealed; a secret.
(n.) Seclusion; privacy; retirement.
(n.) The quality of being secretive; fidelity to a secret; forbearance of disclosure or discovery.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a newspaper interview last month, Shapps said the BBC needed to tackle what he said was a culture of secrecy, waste and unbalanced reporting if it hoped to retain the full £3.6bn raised by the licence fee after the current Royal Charter expires in 2016.
(2) History contains numerous examples of government secrecy breeding abuse.
(3) The secrecy worries me if those decisions are being made without giving us the ability to hold them to account,” says Conservative London Assembly member Andrew Boff.
(4) National newspapers and the BBC have joined forces to oppose Hague's secrecy application and on Friday expressed their dismay at the ruling.
(5) Such is the secrecy around the plot – centred on an Alpine town where the dead come back to life – that not even the cast have been told about the new series, which is due to begin filming early next year.
(6) The government has won a High Court order to prevent the partial lifting of a secrecy order affecting the proposed inquest into the death of former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko.
(7) The company was “owned” by four bearer shareholders, which gave it an extra degree of secrecy.
(8) Secrecy was encouraged and bribery, threats, and peer pressure used to induce participation in sexual activities.
(9) The prime minister, Tony Abbott , said on Thursday he was comfortable with being accused of secrecy on asylum seeker policy so long as the policies succeeded in stopping the boats.
(10) It's believed to be the first time an appeals court delayed an execution based on the issue of drug secrecy.
(11) However, in a demonstration of the intense secrecy surrounding NSA surveillance even after Edward Snowden's revelations, the senators claimed they could not publicly identify the allegedly misleading section or sections of a factsheet without compromising classified information.
(12) They've all had the courthouse doors slammed shut in the faces by courts that have accepted the US government's claims that its own secrecy powers and immunity rights bar any such justice.
(13) Their secrecy and diminished footprint make them harder than conventional wars to oppose and hold to account – though the backlash in countries bearing the brunt is bound to grow.
(14) These efforts don't solve the problem of government surveillance and secrecy.
(15) The engineer said he was concerned that the nuclear industry and local political system had a reputation for considerable secrecy that would not make it easy to discern what had gone wrong.
(16) The practice of HIV-tests for exclusion purpose promotes a tendency to secrecy, which is unfavourable to the social and medical control of the epidemic, especially because medical secret relatively to insurances is insufficient.
(17) "What the Guardian is highlighting is the vital role of secrecy in offshore abuse.
(18) Speaking on his LBC 97.3 radio show, Clegg said he strongly supported the need for secrecy by the intelligence agencies but there needed to be proper accountability as current regulation was quite opaque.
(19) In effect, we need all leaders to move health and social care organisations from fragmentation to integration; from tribes to interdisciplinary and inter-organisational teams; from internal focus to external focus; from domination and control to enabling collaboration; from secrecy to transparency; and from conflict and conflict avoidance to working through.
(20) • Apple has been able to draw a secrecy veil over its Irish operations by making extensive use of unlimited companies, which are not required to file company accounts.
Secrely
Definition:
(adv.) Secretly.
Example Sentences:
(1) Renal parenchymal injury may be progressive, despite an apparent plateau of the SeCr in some patients.
(2) The greatest change in SeCr occurred within the first 6 months post LTXP.
(3) The above facts testify to changes of nervous regulation of gastric secre
(4) By the end of the follow-up, 9 patients had SeCr > 200 microM.
(5) Together, these results suggest that the mechanism(s) operating to sort acid phosphatase in Dictyostelium can tolerate a wide range of changes in N-linked oligosaccharides including a reduction in phosphate and the absence of CA-1 and sulfate, while in contrast, these same alterations can profoundly influence the rate of transport of acid phosphatase from the ER and post-ER compartments to lysosomes as well as the secr