unsecure

English

Etymology 1

From un- +‎ secure. Piecewise doublet of insecure and unsure, as well as of etymology 2.

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.

Etymology 2

From un- +‎ secure. Piecewise doublet of insecure and unsure, as well as of etymology 1.

Verb

unsecure (third-person singular simple present unsecures, present participle unsecuring, simple past and past participle unsecured)

1. (transitive) To make insecure or less secure.

Anagrams

• unrecuse