Surreption

Related to Surreption: surreptitious

Sur`rep´tion


n. 1. The act or process of getting in a surreptitious manner, or by craft or stealth.
Fame by surreption got
May stead us for the time, but lasteth not.
- B. Jonson.
2. A coming unperceived or suddenly.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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