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noun Freedom from risk or danger; safety.
noun Freedom from doubt, anxiety, or fear; confidence.
noun Something that gives or assures safety, as:

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The state of being secure. Freedom from care, anxiety, or apprehension; confidence of safety; hence, unconcernedness; carelessness; heedlessness; over-confidence. And you all know, security Is mortals' chiefest enemy. Shak., Macbeth, iii. 5. 32. The last daughter of pride is delicacy, under which is contained gluttony, luxury, sloth, and security. Nash, Christ's Tears Over Jerusalem, p. 137. (Trench.) The army, expecting from the king's illness a speedy order to return, conversed of nothing else within their camp, with that kind of security as if they had already received orders to return home. Bruce, Source of the Nile, II. 37.
Freedom from annoyance, harm, danger, or loss; safety. The people neither vsed vs well nor ill, yet for our securitie we tooke one of their petty Kings, and led him bound to conduct vs the way. Quoted in Capt. John Smith's Works, I. 196. What greater security can we have, than to be under the protection of infinite wisdom and goodness? Bp. Atterbury, Sermons, II. xxii. The right of personal security is, … that no person, except on impeachment, and in cases arising in the military and naval service, shall be held to answer for a capital or otherwise infamous crime, or for any offence above the common-law degree of petit larceny, unless he shall have been previously charged on the presentment or indictment of a grand jury; that no person shall be subject, for the same offence, to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall he be compelled, in any criminal case, to be a witness against himself; and, in all criminal prosecutions, the accused is entitled to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury; and upon the trial he is entitled to be confronted with the witnesses against him, to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favour, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defence; and as a further guard against abuse and oppression in criminal proceedings, it is declared that excessive bail cannot be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. Kent's Commentaries (12th ed.), II. 12.
That which secures or makes safe; protection; defense; guard. Anjou is neighbouring upon Normandy: a great Security to it, if a Friend; and as great a Danger, if an Enemy. Baker, Chronicles, p. 44. There are only two or three poor families that live here, and are in perpetual fear of the Arabs, against whom their poverty is their best security. Pococke, Description of the East, II. i. 59.

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It's all those people who can't afford their own security -- their security is the LAPD. — AroundTheCapitol.com
Data security is another factor behind past resistance to offshoring government IT. — The most recent articles from Computing
If data security were a profit center, we could shift our business justification discussion from the value of information right into assessing its potential for profit. — Research Library
But while we have an intuitive sense that data security is a major issue, we have trouble getting a handle on the real risks to data in a quantitative sense. — Research Library
But, having them fight off the security was a nice touch. — PWTorch.com

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Middle English securite, from Old French, from Latin sēcūritās, from sēcūrus, secure; see secure.

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from French sécurité = Spanish seguridad = Portuguese seguridade = Italian sicurità, sicurtà, from Latin securita(t-)s, freedom from care, from securus. free from care: see secure. Cf. surety, a doublet of security, as sure is of secure.

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