In a secret or hidden manner; conducted with stealth or secrecy.
Adverbial form of the rare adjective clancular, formed by adding -ly; derived ultimately from Latin 'clam' meaning secretly.
This word is so rarely used that finding it in actual historical texts is like discovering a linguistic fossil—it's a window into obscure 17th and 18th-century writing.
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