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self-seˈcure, a. [self- 1 e.] Sure of oneself, one's position, etc.
a1700Ken Hymnotheo Poet. Wks. III. 17 He self-secure thought he should neither need. 1834Tait's Mag. I. 661/1 The most frugal and self-secure of sovereigns. 1849M. Arnold Shakespeare 10 Self-schooled, self-scanned, self-honoured, self-secure. So self-seˈcurity.
1766Blackstone Comm. II. iv. 50 This new polity..seems..to have been..adopted..upon the same principle of self-security. 1768H. Walpole Hist. Doubts 33 Self-security prompted the princes and lords to guard against this reverse. 1905Speaker 8 Apr. 32/1 Bunyan's self-security of opinion. |