Meanings
plural securitans
- obsoleteOne who feels secure, but who may in fact not be.
The sensual Securitan pleases himself in the conceit of his own peace.
1837, Joseph Hall, Works: With Some Account of His Life and Sufferings2 more examples
The dissolute securitans think that God doth but smile at the absurdities of men ; that ludit in humanis ; that their drunkenness and adulteries rather make him merry than angry.
1862, The Works of Thomas AdamsAs we said, it is fighting without aggression and is declared against the fighters, not against securitans and peaceful people, who are not dangerous to the Islamic Call or the Islamic community.
1970, Majmaʻ al-Buḥūth al-Islāmīyah, The Fourth Conference of the Academy of Islamic Research
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