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unˈsureness
[un-1 12.]
1. Uncertainty; insecurity.
1430–40Lydg. Bochas i. i. (1494) A vi b/1 Where they stode first in sykernesse Of ioye..Oute of their rest they fyll in vnsurenesse In sorowe and sighynge. c1440Eng. Conq. Ireland 51 And euery Surnesse hath vnsurnes at the ende. 1530Palsgr. 285/2 Unsurenesse, deseurete. 1565Cooper Thesaurus s.v. Infirmitas, What vnsurenes doe you see in the mariage hetherto? 1573Satir. Poems Reform. I. 275 The greit frailtie and vnsureness of all strenthis eirthly. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. vi. xxii. 226 The state of man..doth shew..with what vnsurenesse the seat of maiesty is possest. 1863Holme Lee A. Warleigh III. 133 Her hints to Rachel..touching the unsureness of the future.
†2. Unsteadiness, fickleness. Obs.—1
a1470Tiptoft Tulle on Friendsh. (Caxton, 1481) C ij, There ben two thynges, which prove in many men lightnesse and unsurenesse. |