unsecure

English

Etymology

un- +‎ secure

Adjective

unsecure (comparative more unsecure, superlative most unsecure)

  1. (rare) insecure
    • 1668, John Denham, 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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