Conceal vs Protect - What's the difference?
conceal | protect |
(lb) To hide something from view or from public knowledge, to try to keep something secret.
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*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed .
To keep safe; to defend; to guard; to prevent harm coming to.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03
, author=William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter
, title=The British Longitude Act Reconsidered
, volume=100, issue=2, page=87
, magazine=
As verbs the difference between conceal and protect
is that conceal is to hide something from view or from public knowledge, to try to keep something secret while protect is to keep safe; to defend; to guard; to prevent harm coming to.conceal
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(en verb)citation, passage=But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge—a disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea.}}