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se·cret so·ci·ety

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. secret societynoun

    a society that conceals its activities from nonmembers

Wiktionary

  1. secret societynoun

    A club, fraternal organization, or other association which admits only selected individuals as members, whose meetings and practices are often ritualistic and not public, and which often has the purpose of furthering the social or economic opportunities of its members.

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  1. Secret society

    A secret society is an organization whose activities, events, inner functioning, or membership are concealed. The society may or may not attempt to conceal its existence. The term usually excludes covert groups, such as intelligence agencies or guerrilla warfare insurgencies, that hide their activities and memberships but maintain a public presence.

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  1. secret society

    A secret society is an organization or club whose activities, events, inner functioning or membership are concealed from non-members. The society may have secret ceremonies, rituals, practices, and may possess confidential knowledge and information. Membership is typically exclusive, requiring adherence to specific criteria or initiation processes.

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  1. Secret society

    A secret society is a club or organization whose activities and inner functioning are concealed from non-members. The society may or may not attempt to conceal its existence. The term usually excludes covert groups, such as intelligence agencies, or guerrilla insurgencies, which hide their activities and memberships but maintain a public presence. The exact qualifications for labeling a group as a secret society are disputed, but definitions generally rely on the degree to which the organization insists on secrecy, and might involve the retention and transmission of secret knowledge, denial of membership in or knowledge of the group, the creation of personal bonds between members of the organization, and the use of secret rites or rituals which solidify members of the group. Anthropologically and historically, secret societies are deeply interlinked with the concept of the Mannerbund, the all-male "warrior-band" or "warrior-society" of pre-modern cultures. A purported "family tree of secret societies" has been proposed, although it may not be comprehensive. Alan Axelrod, author of the International Encyclopedia of Secret Societies and Fraternal Orders, defines a secret society as an organization that:

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of secret society in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of secret society in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of secret society in a Sentence

  1. John Ratcliffe:

    We learned today about information that in the immediate aftermath of [ Trump’s ] election, that there may have been a secret society of folks within the Department of Justice and the FBI -- to include Page and Strzok -- that would be working against him.

  2. Trey Gowdy:

    There’s a text exchange between these two FBI agents, these two supposed to be objective fact-centric FBI agents, saying that perhaps this is the first meeting of the ‘secret society’.

  3. Trey Gowdy:

    There’s a text exchange between these two FBI agents, these two supposed to be objective fact-centric FBI agents, saying that perhaps this is the first meeting of the ‘ secret society,' so of course I ’m going to want to know what secret society you’re talking about because you’re supposed to be investigating objectively the person who just won the Electoral College ; so yeah I ’m going to want to know, he said. MORE THAN 50,000 TEXTS EXCHANGED BETWEEN FBI OFFICIALS STRZOK AND PAGE, SESSIONS SAYS It is n’t the first time the messages have raised questions about what may have been going on at the FBI. In one previously released message, Strzok appeared to make reference to an.

  4. Ron Johnson:

    That secret society -- we have an informant that's talking about a group that were holding secret meetings offsite.

  5. Abhi Raynott:

    Community makes us all. Secret society breaks us all.


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