Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for Stealth (-'s)
stealth (-'s), n. [ME; see steal, v.] (webplay: stealing, secret, stole).
- Secret practice; confidential promise; private act.
- Furtiveness; privacy; secrecy; taking surreptitiously; [word play on “stealing”] misappropriation; [amelioration] silence; reverence; sacred feelings; intensely personal feelings.
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