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hidden (adj.)
past participle adjective from
hide
(v.1); a Middle English formation (Old English had
gehydd
"hidden") on the model of
ride
/
ridden
, etc. As "secret, occult" from 1540s.
Hidden persuaders
(1957) was Vance Packard's term for ad men.
