Secure vs Secureness - What's the difference?
secure | secureness |
Free from attack or danger; protected.
Free from the danger of theft; safe.
Free from the risk of eavesdropping, interception or discovery; secret.
Free from anxiety or doubt; unafraid.
* Dryden
Firm and not likely to fail; stable.
Free from the risk of financial loss; reliable.
Confident in opinion; not entertaining, or not having reason to entertain, doubt; certain; sure; commonly used with of .
* Milton
Overconfident; incautious; careless.
To make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect.
* Dryden
To put beyond hazard of losing or of not receiving; to make certain; to assure; frequently with against'' or ''from'', or formerly with ''of .
* T. Dick
To make fast; to close or confine effectually; to render incapable of getting loose or escaping.
To get possession of; to make oneself secure of; to acquire certainly.
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*{{quote-book, year=1910, author=Compiled by Edwin Partridge Lehman and Julian Park, title=A Williams Anthology, chapter=, edition=
, passage=And now, though there is none of that sweetness of stolen fruits, none of that creeping insecurity of former readings, there is an undisturbing, quiet secureness that makes our books more living to us. }}
*{{quote-book, year=1919, author=Ellen N. La Motte, title=Peking Dust, chapter=, edition=
, passage=A square seat, about as wide and unyielding as a table-top, was strapped securely to each donkey, and to this seat we clung, with no secureness at all. }}
* {{quote-news, year=1990, date=December 21, author=Albert Williams, title=Closer Than Ever, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=That's partly because of the high level of professionalism and efficiency of M. Seth Reines's staging of the show at Apple Tree Theatre; the very secureness of the production mitigates any feelings of insecurity the characters might want to communicate. }}
As an adjective secure
is free from attack or danger; protected.As a verb secure
is to make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect.As a noun secureness is
the quality or state of being secure, security.secure
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* secuer (obsolete)Adjective
(en-adj)- But thou, secure of soul, unbent with woes.
- secure of a welcome
- Confidence then bore thee on, secure / Either to meet no danger, or to find / Matter of glorious trial.
- (Macaulay)
Antonyms
* insecureDerived terms
* securelyVerb
(secur)- I spread a cloud before the victor's sight, / Sustained the vanquished, and secured his flight.
- to secure''' a creditor against loss; to '''secure a debt by a mortgage
- It secures its possessor of eternal happiness.
- to secure''' a prisoner; to '''secure a door, or the hatches of a ship
- to secure an estate
Ángel di María says Manchester United were the ‘only club’ after Real", The Guardian , 26 August 2014:
- With the Argentinian secured United will step up their attempt to sign a midfielder and, possibly, a defender in the closing days of the transfer window. Juventus’s Arturo Vidal, Milan’s Nigel de Jong and Ajax’s Daley Blind, who is also a left-sided defensive player, are potential targets.
- "[Captain] was able to secure some good photographs of the fortress."
(Flight, 1911, p. 766)
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.}}
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