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† unseˈcure, a. Obs.
(un-1 7 and 5 b.)
1636[Denham] Destr. Troy (1656) 2 Now but an unsecure and open Bay. 1685Ld. Perth in Lond. Gaz. No. 2031/7 They render us unquiet and unsecure at home. 1700Blackmore Job 67 He in his prosperous state is unsecure. 1726Leoni Alberti's Archit. II. 100/1 It may be unsecure against sudden incursions of enemies. 1729T. Innes Crit. Ess. (1879) 184 Looking on their religion as unsecure as long as the queen's authority was acknowledged.
b. Const. of, or to with inf.
a1685Roscommon Virgil's Sixth Ecl. Poems (1749) 77 None who under that protection came Was ever ill receiv'd, or unsecure of fame. 1693Fleetwood Serm. 13 Depending..on Accidents in Nature, which are varying every Day, uncertain, unsecure to be relied upon. |