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adjective

Insecure adj.

Not secure; not confident of safety or permanence; distrustful; suspicious; apprehensive of danger or loss. "With sorrow and insecure apprehensions."

Not effectually guarded, protected, or sustained; unsafe; unstable; exposed to danger or loss. "The trade with Egypt was exceedingly insecure and precarious."

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Etymology of 'Insecure'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Insecure" Quotes from Famous Books

... of her husband's house, or if she were ever to feel again her fear of Greatorex, which was the most intolerable of all her fears. It was as if Nature itself were aware that, if Ally were not dispossessed of that terror before Greatorex's child was born her own purpose would be insecure; as if the unborn child, the flesh and blood of the Greatorexes that had entered into her, ...

— The Three Sisters • May Sinclair

... group subsequently known as 'Pasquino,' and set it upon the pedestal which made it famous, and gave its name a place in all languages, by the witty lampoons and stinging satires almost daily affixed to the block of stone. Many other villas followed in the same direction, and in those insecure days not a few Romans, when the summer days grew hot, were content to move up from their palaces in the lower parts of the city to breathe the somewhat better air of the Quirinal and the Esquiline, instead of risking a journey to ...

— Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 1 - Studies from the Chronicles of Rome • Francis Marion Crawford

... state of the Canaanites; for at first, before they were at all discovered, they took a full view of the city of Jericho without disturbance, and saw which parts of the walls were strong, and which parts were otherwise, and indeed insecure, and which of the gates were so weak as might afford an entrance to their army. Now those that met them took no notice of them when they saw them, and supposed they were only strangers, who used to be very curious in observing ...

— The Antiquities of the Jews • Flavius Josephus

... the nineteenth century knows well how insecure his tenure is. His motto must be, "Let us eat and drink, for to- morrow we die;" and, therefore, the first objects of his rule will be, private luxury and a standing army; while if he engage in public works, for the sake ...

— Sanitary and Social Lectures and Essays • Charles Kingsley

... The fervent heat of a poet's imagination may glow as brightly in poverty as in opulence, but the gentle yet prolonged enthusiasm of the historian is likely to be quenched when the resources of life are too insecure.[7] ...

— Gibbon • James Cotter Morison

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