(adv) in a manner free from fear or risk, Ant. insecurely, Example:the outcome of expansion in the sixties and seventies will be an academic hierarchy securely supported by scholastic selection
(adv) in an invulnerable manner, Example:the agreed line was to involve at several points the withdrawal of French troops from positions which they had quite securely held
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