Definition for IN-SE-CUR'I-TY

IN-SE-CUR'I-TY, n. [in and security.]

  1. Want of safety, or want of confidence in safety. Seamen in a tempest must be conscious of their insecurity.
  2. Uncertainty. With what insecurity of truth we ascribe effects to unseen causes.
  3. Want of safety; danger; hazard; exposure to destruction or loss; applied to things; as, the insecurity of a building exposed to fire; the insecurity of a debt.

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