1636. [Denham], Destr. Troy (1656), 2. Now but an unsecure and open Bay.
1685. Ld. Perth, in Lond. Gaz., No. 2031/7. They render us unquiet and unsecure at home.
1700. Blackmore, Job, 67. He in his prosperous state is unsecure.
1726. Leoni, trans. Alberti’s Archit., II. 100/1. It may be unsecure against sudden incursions of enemies.
1729. T. Innes, Crit. Ess. (1879), 184. Looking on their religion as unsecure as long as the queen’s authority was acknowledged.
b. Const. of, or to with inf.
a. 1685[?]. Roscommon, Virgil’s Sixth Ecl., Poems (1749), 77. None who under that protection came Was ever ill receiv’d, or unsecure of fame.
1693. Fleetwood, Serm., 13. Depending … on Accidents in Nature, which are varying every Day, uncertain, unsecure to be relied upon.
