securitan

English

Noun

securitan (plural securitans)

1. (obsolete) One who feels secure, but who may in fact not be.
   • 1837, Joseph Hall, Works: With Some Account of His Life and Sufferings:

     The sensual Securitan pleases himself in the conceit of his own peace.

   • 1862, The Works of Thomas Adams:

     The dissolute securitans think that God doth but smile at the absurdities of men ; that ludit in humanis ; that their drunkenness and adulteries rather make him merry than angry.

   • 1970, Majmaʻ al-Buḥūth al-Islāmīyah, The Fourth Conference of the Academy of Islamic Research:

     As we said, it is fighting without aggression and is declared against the fighters, not against securitans and peaceful people, who are not dangerous to the Islamic Call or the Islamic community.

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• Teucrians, truancies