unsecure
English
Adjective
unsecure (comparative more unsecure, superlative most unsecure)
- (rare) insecure
- 1668, John Denham, Of Prudence (poem)
- All great concernments must delays endure;
Rashness and haste make all things unsecure.
- All great concernments must delays endure;
- 1624, Thomas Middleton, A Game at Chesse:
- Has my Goodnes
Clemencie, loue, and fauour gratious raysed thee
From a Condition next to popular labour
Tooke thee from all the dubitable hazards
Of Fortune, her most unsecure aduentures
And grafted thee into a Branch of honor […]
- 1883, N. Y. Supreme Court, page 43:
- […] [the elevator] was in operation when it fell; its fall was due to the settling of the piers and the unsecure foundation of the elevator […]
- 2004, Stephen Walther, ASP.NET unleashed 2003, page 923:
- In this chapter, you examine methods for encrypting data before it is sent across an unsecure network such as the Internet.
- 2007, Brian Koerner, Windows Vista Security for Dummies, page 223:
- Unsecure networks pose a substantial security risk to your systems or data.
- 1668, John Denham, Of Prudence (poem)
Verb
unsecure (third-person singular simple present unsecures, present participle unsecuring, simple past and past participle unsecured)
- (transitive) To make insecure or less secure.
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