unsafetyn.
Absence or want of safety.
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1614 F. Bacon Charge touching Duels 9 It may cause suddaine stormes in Court, to the disturbance of his Majestie, and vnsaftie of his person.
a1626 F. Bacon Elements Common Lawes (1630) Ep. Ded. sig. A4 The great hollownesse and vnsafety in assurances of lands.
a1684 R. Leighton Pract. Comm. 1st Epist. Peter (1694) II. 140 Perceiving the unsafety and vanity of these, and all external things.
1844 J. Watson in Churton Mem. (1861) II. 222 The unsafety of determining authorships by internal evidence.
1872 W. D. Howells Their Wedding Journey ix The unsafety of all bridges of that design.
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