Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being secure or safe.
- noun Safety; security.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The condition or quality of being secure; exemption from fear; want of vigilance; security.
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- noun the quality or state of being
secure ,security
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment
- noun the state of freedom from fear or danger
Etymologies
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Examples
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And right as in the first word that our good Lord shewed, signifying His blissful Passion, -- Herewith is the devil overcome, -- right so He said in the last word, with full true secureness, meaning us all: Thou shalt not be overcome.
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FLOCK: Give me a sense, general, of what your men will be doing today and what they have been doing in terms of secureness?
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But there is no way in all the blue hells that I would do something so inane as to bet on that outcome, or somehow think that putting money on it is an indication of the secureness of my opinion in this matter.
California Legislature Passes Same-Sex Marriage Law; Schwarzenegger hints he’ll veto 2005
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But there is no way in all the blue hells that I would do something so inane as to bet on that outcome, or somehow think that putting money on it is an indication of the secureness of my opinion in this matter.
California Legislature Passes Same-Sex Marriage Law; Schwarzenegger hints he’ll veto 2005
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When I feel the secureness of the chignon at the top, I think it straightens me up a bit more, and puts me more in sort of a proper lady-like kind of attitude, with a little extra sexiness.
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It was with the same thoroughness that we assessed the vehicles which we purchased in terms of the level of secureness and cost.
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"It was with the same thoroughness that we assessed the vehicles which we purchased in terms of the level of secureness and cost."
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Stage Company realized a secureness in Billy Ryus, and knew he would linger on in their employ, bravely facing the dangers feared by the other drivers and conductors until such a time as they could employ other men to take his place.
The Second William Penn A true account of incidents that happened along the old Santa Fe Trail William H. Ryus
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To the kitchen, then, they hurried, and found real comfort in its smallness and secureness.
Prudence of the Parsonage Ethel Hueston
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A square seat, about as wide and unyielding as a table-top, was strapped securely to each donkey, and to this seat we clung, with no secureness at all.
Peking Dust Ellen Newbold La Motte 1917
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