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Security   /sɪkjˈʊrəti/   Listen
noun
Security  n.  (pl. securities)  
1.
The condition or quality of being secure; secureness. Specifically:
(a)
Freedom from apprehension, anxiety, or care; confidence of power or safety; hence, assurance; certainty. "His trembling hand had lost the ease, Which marks security to please."
(b)
Hence, carelessness; negligence; heedlessness. "He means, my lord, that we are too remiss, Whilst Bolingbroke, through our security, Grows strong and great in substance and in power."
(c)
Freedom from risk; safety. "Give up yourself merely to chance and hazard, From firm security." "Some... alleged that we should have no security for our trade."
2.
That which secures or makes safe; protection; guard; defense. Specifically:
(a)
Something given, deposited, or pledged, to make certain the fulfillment of an obligation, the performance of a contract, the payment of a debt, or the like; surety; pledge. "Those who lent him money lent it on no security but his bare word."
(b)
One who becomes surety for another, or engages himself for the performance of another's obligation.
3.
An evidence of debt or of property, as a bond, a certificate of stock, etc.; as, government securities.
Synonyms: Protection; defense; guard; shelter; safety; certainty; ease; assurance; carelessness; confidence; surety; pledge; bail.






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"Security" Quotes from Famous Books



... this secret you were to reveal to me?" Gerfaut interrupted, with a smile which seemed to denote perfect security. ...
— Gerfaut, Complete • Charles de Bernard

... upon some publick Occasion, the publick Treasurers of the Land sent to the capital City, to borrow 500000 Lunarians upon very good Security of establisht Funds; truly no Body would lend any Mony, or at least they could not raise above a 5th part of that Sum, enquiring at the Bank, at their general Societies Cash, and other Places, all was languid and dull, and no Mony to be had; but being inform'd that the Crolians had erected ...
— The Consolidator • Daniel Defoe

... At about the time that the great war terminated. I came to Europe and believed that at last I had found security. I lived for a time in London amidst a refreshing peace that was new to me. Then, chancing to hear of a property in Surrey which was available, I leased it for a period of years, installing—is it correct?—my cousin, Madame de Staemer, as housekeeper. ...
— Bat Wing • Sax Rohmer

... the stranger.—"As Rowland's whole crew perished in the tempest, and he only escaped by miracle, he fancied himself free from detection. And for twelve years he has been so; until his long security, well-nigh obliterating remembrance of the deed, has bred almost a sense of innocence within his breast. During this period Sir Montacute has been gathered to his fathers. His title has descended to Rowland: ...
— Jack Sheppard - A Romance • William Harrison Ainsworth

... this diseased disposition is matter of exultation to the philanthropist and philosopher, and of regret to the poet, the painter, and the statuary alone, and to them only as poets, painters, and statuaries;—namely, the security, the comparative equability, and ever increasing sameness of human life. Men are now so seldom thrown into wild circumstances, and violences of excitement, that the language of such states, the laws of association of feeling with thought, ...
— Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher • S. T. Coleridge


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