单词 | securement |
释义 | securementn. 1. The action or an act of making secure or certain; ensuring, or making sure, of something. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > absence of doubt, confidence > assured fact, certainty > making certain, assurance > [noun] certaininga1300 faitha1382 certifyinga1387 assuring1530 certification1533 assurance1609 securement1622 certioration1653 ensurance1654 assecurationa1656 insurance1660 1622 in W. Foster Eng. Factories India 1622–3 (1908) 108 [Willoughby has also been furnished with money, and left to take his choice of means] for his best securmentt. 1721 R. Fern Treat. Celestial Work & Worship vi. 251 Is not this a cogent Argument to make us fall in with the Offers of Heaven, and set upon the Securement of it? 1794 C. F. Triebner Key to French Revol. 85 As to the securement of each person's enjoyment, and preservation of each other's rights. 1883 Cent. Mag. July 475/2 Liberty, however, is so highly prized that society condemns the securement in all cases of perpetual protection by means of perpetual imprisonment. 1897 Med. Mirror Aug. 422/1 The simplest measures are best for the securement of this complete elimination. 1900 J. Collins Treatm. Dis. Nerv. Syst. ii. 41 The Securement of Sleep. 1920 Public Libraries July 374/1 Free public libraries..are necessary to the securement of an intelligent citizenship. 2006 H.-H. Hoppe Econ. & Ethics Private Prop. (ed. 2) i. i. 23 What consumers want most urgently..[is] the prevention of hardcore crime..the recovery of loot, and the securement of compensation. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > [noun] > making safe securement1646 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. ii. 7 Cain..grew afraid thereof, and obtained a securement from it [sc. death] . View more context for this quotation 1658 Sir T. Browne Let. to Dugdale 10 Nov. The laborious Aggers, Banks, and Works of Securement against Floods and Inundations. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1622 |
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