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unaˈssured, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. Not assured or safe; insecure.
c1430Lydg. Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 76 Riche with wysshis, pore of possessioune; Stable unassured, assured eke unstable. 1596Spenser Hymn of Love 263 The doubts, the daungers, the delayes,..The fayned friends, the unassured foes. 1611Cotgr., Desassurer, to disassure;..to make vnsetled, vnassured. 1647N. Bacon Disc. Govt. Eng. i. xlv. 117 In the middest of his strong and conquering army he held himselfe unassured. 1896Daily News 29 Oct. 6/5 The confusion..superinduced by unassured peace.
2. Not certain or sure (of something).
a1529Skelton Replyc. 93 Your selfe thus ye discured As clerkes vnassured, With ignorance obscured. 1577tr. Bullinger's Decades (1592) 504 The sentence definitive is suspended or else it is otherwise ghessed at by humane and vnassured suspition. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 194 To invent or assign a cause, when we remain unsatisfied or unassured of the effect. 1651Hobbes Leviath. ii. xxvii. 156 When men are by any accident unassured they have slept, [dreams] seem to be reall Visions. 1736Thomson Liberty v. 718 As thick to view these varied Wonders rose, Shook all my soul with transport, unassur'd, The Vision broke. 1776M. Morgann Ess. Dram. Char. Falstaff (1777) 12 Their ill-gotten..gold feels loose in their unassured grasp.
3. Not self-possessed or confident; not sure of oneself or of one's safety.
1627Lisander & Cal. v. 81 A troubled countenance and an unassured voice. 1697Collier Ess. Mor. Subj. ii. (1709) 153 He that is Embarrassed in his Liberty, is apt to be unassur'd in his Actions. 1713Guard. No. 32 ⁋8 He moved towards her with an easie but unassured air. 1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) IV. 73 [They] stood yet awhile, pale, astonished, and unassured. 1821–2Wordsw. Eccl. Sonn. iii. xxxvii. 8 Had we, like them, endured Sore stress of apprehension,..From month to month trembling and unassured. 1825Scott Betrothed xxvii, Lady Eveline approached his bedside with unassured steps, fearing she knew not what.
4. Not insured against loss or damage.
1828–32Webster s.v.
Hence unaˈssuredly adv., unaˈssuredness.
1648Hexham ii, Ongewisselick, Vncertainly, or Vnassuredly. 1660N. Ingelo Bentiv. & Ur. i. (1682) 130 Incredulous Philosophers, of whose vitious lives I cannot but think their unassuredness in this matter to have been a great cause. |