"surreptition" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1986, Alan Bleasdale, The Monocled Mutineer, Vintage",
          "text": "They have found a way to continue drinking both furiously and yet with a certain degree of surreptition. The Australians near to the fence slice through the bonds keeping the wrists of the Tommies strapped to the posts. The first couple of ...",
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          "text": "We will propose a model that tries to apply ideas taken from the way plants, animals, and human societies have used surreptition to protect themselves against attackers to the way we can protect software from attack.",
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