unsecure

English

Etymology

un- + secure

Adjective

unsecure (comparative more unsecure, superlative most unsecure)

  1. (rare) insecure
    • Sir John Denham (c.1614–1669), Of Prudence (poem)
      All great concernments must delays endure;
      Rashness and haste make all things unsecure.
    • 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.

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