Emily Dickinson Lexicon

stealth (-'s), n. [ME; see steal, v.] (webplay: stealing, secret, stole).

1. Secret practice; confidential promise; private act.
2. Furtiveness; privacy; secrecy; taking surreptitiously; [word play on “stealing”] misappropriation; [amelioration] silence; reverence; sacred feelings; intensely personal feelings.