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Security
SECU'RITY, n. [L. securitas.]
1. Protection; effectual defense or saftey from danger of any kind; as a chain of forts erected for the security of the frontiers.
2. That which protects or guards from danger. A navy constitutes the security of Great Britain from invasion.
3. Freedom from fear or apprehension; confidence of safety; whence, negligence in providing means of defense. Security is dangerous, for it exposes men to attack when unprepared. Security in sin is the worst condition of the sinner.
4. Safety; certainty. We have no security for peace with Algiers, but the dread of our navy.
5. Anything given or deposited to secure the payment of a debt, or the performance of a contract; as a bond with surety, a mortgage, the indorsement of a responsible man, a pledge, etc.
6. Something given or done to secure peace or good behavior. Violent and dangerous men are obliged to give security for their good behavior, or for keeping the peace. This security
in being bound with one or more sureties in a recognizance to the king or state.
security appears in definitions for these words:
Adjudication Anchor Anchor-hold Arktizite Armed Assuring Asylum Attachment Bail Barricade Beacon Bed Bill Body-guard Bondsman Bottomry Carpet Caution Cautionary Cautionry Certainty Collateral Comfort Compurgation Confidence Corroboration Counter-secure Counter-security Counter-surety Covering Custody Defense Den Deposit Dictation Discount Disquietude Double-lock Escape Escort Fastness Fear Fence Fidelity Fort Fortress Gag Good Guard Hold Hypothecate Hypothecated Hypothecating Hypothecator Impawn Incolumity Indemnification Indemnify Indemnity Inerrably Insecurely Insecurity Keep Landed Law Lull Mainprize Maintenance Mistake Mortgage Mortgaged Mortgager Munity Outrigger Pawn Pawned Pawnee Pawner Pawning Peace Place Pledge Pledged Pledging Plight Profession Provision Quiet Rail Replevin Replevy Rest Retreat Roman Safe-conduct Safeguard Securement Shelter Sickerness Stand Strength Strengthen Strong-hold Surety Swifter The Torpid Tributary Upon Void Wage Wall War Warrant Warrantise Warranty
Adjudication Anchor Anchor-hold Arktizite Armed Assuring Asylum Attachment Bail Barricade Beacon Bed Bill Body-guard Bondsman Bottomry Carpet Caution Cautionary Cautionry Certainty Collateral Comfort Compurgation Confidence Corroboration Counter-secure Counter-security Counter-surety Covering Custody Defense Den Deposit Dictation Discount Disquietude Double-lock Escape Escort Fastness Fear Fence Fidelity Fort Fortress Gag Good Guard Hold Hypothecate Hypothecated Hypothecating Hypothecator Impawn Incolumity Indemnification Indemnify Indemnity Inerrably Insecurely Insecurity Keep Landed Law Lull Mainprize Maintenance Mistake Mortgage Mortgaged Mortgager Munity Outrigger Pawn Pawned Pawnee Pawner Pawning Peace Place Pledge Pledged Pledging Plight Profession Provision Quiet Rail Replevin Replevy Rest Retreat Roman Safe-conduct Safeguard Securement Shelter Sickerness Stand Strength Strengthen Strong-hold Surety Swifter The Torpid Tributary Upon Void Wage Wall War Warrant Warrantise Warranty
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