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)

(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)

(transitive) To make insecure or less secure.

Anagrams

unrecuse