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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

... This was his ordeal, to sit, nerveless and insecure, on the brink of the precipice. But Hazard, lying safely in his crevice, now had to face his own ordeal, but one of a different nature. When Gus began to slide—as he soon must—would he, Hazard, be able to take in the slack and then meet the shock as the other tautened the rope ...

— Dutch Courage and Other Stories • Jack London

... between the houses Commercial Questions Irish Manufactures East India Companies Fire at Whitehall Visit of the Czar Portland's Embassy to France The Spanish Succession The Count of Tallard's Embassy Newmarket Meeting: the insecure State of the Roads Further Negotiations relating to the Spanish Succession The King goes to Holland Portland returns from his Embassy William is ...

— The History of England from the Accession of James II. - Complete Contents of the Five Volumes • Thomas Babington Macaulay

... and soon the expected troops arrived, and the expedition started for White River to join Captain Brent. The captain was stationed there to impress Red Cloud, and had written to headquarters that this chief did not seem impressed very deeply, and that the lives of the settlers were insecure. Reinforcements were accordingly sent to him. On the evening before these soldiers left Laramie, news came from the south. Toussaint had escaped from jail. The country was full of roving, dubious Indians, and with the authentic news went a rumor that the jailer had received various ...

— The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories • Owen Wister

... doctrine of evolution, as applied to the organic world, took in Darwin's hands, would prove to be final or not, was, to me, a matter of indifference. In my earliest criticisms of the Origin I ventured to point out that its logical foundation was insecure so long as experiments in selective breeding had not produced varieties which were more or less infertile; and that insecurity remains up to the present time. But, with any and every critical doubt which my sceptical ingenuity could suggest, ...

— Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work • P. Chalmers Mitchell

... perpetually founding new Orders. An asceticism thus enforced could not always be accompanied by the ardent exaltation necessary to maintain it, and in its artificial efforts at self-preservation it frequently fell from its insecure heights to the depths of unrestrained license.[77] This fatality of all hazardous efforts to overpass humanity's normal limits begun to be realized after the Middle Ages were over by clear-sighted thinkers. "Qui veut faire l'ange," said Pascal, pungently summing up this view of the matter, "fait ...

— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis

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