Tryst vs Clandestine - What's the difference?
tryst | clandestine |
A prearranged meeting or assignation, now especially between lovers to meet at a specific place and time.
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* 2004 , , The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life , page 11
* 2005 , , The Pig that Wants to be Eaten: And 99 other thought experiments , ?91: “No one gets hurt”, page 271 (Granta; ISBN 1862078556, 9781862078550)
(obsolete) A mutual agreement, a covenant.
To make a tryst; to agree to meet at a place.
To arrange or appoint (a meeting time etc.).
To keep a tryst, to meet at an agreed place and time.
Done or kept in secret, sometimes to conceal an illicit or improper purpose.
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* 2004 — (Penny Arcade)
* 2005 — (Stewart Lee), 90's Comedian DVD''
(freemasonry, of a person or lodge) Not recognized as a regular member.
As a noun tryst
is a prearranged meeting or assignation, now especially between lovers to meet at a specific place and time.As a verb tryst
is to make a tryst; to agree to meet at a place.As an adjective clandestine is
done or kept in secret, sometimes to conceal an illicit or improper purpose.tryst
English
Noun
(en noun)- The tenderest-hearted maid / That ever bided tryst at village stile.
- But, for the most part, we shall mark our progress to the dawn of life by the measure of those 40 natural milestones, the trysts that enrich our pilgrimage.
- If someone trusts you, what is lost if you betray that trust? As Scarlett is tempted to see it, sometimes nothing at all. If her husband remains ignorant of her tryst , then his trust in her will remain intact. ‘No one gets hurt’ runs her reasoning, so why not go ahead?
Verb
(en verb)clandestine
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- In my imagination, all work place encounters between men and women result in clandestine sex.
- And I don't want anyone to think I dislike Catholicism because I don't. It's actually my favourite form of clandestine global evil.