safetie

English

Noun

safetie (countable and uncountable, plural safeties)

Obsolete spelling of safety.
- 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 23, column 1:
  Firſt, heauen be the record to my ſpeech,
  In the deuotion of a ſubiects loue,
  Tendering the precious ſafetie of my Prince,
  And free from other misbegotten hate,
  Come I appealant to rhis [sic] Princely preſence.
- 1610, John Donne, “A Preface to the Priestes, and Iesuits, and to Their Disciples in This Kingdome”, in Pseudo-Martyr. […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Walter Burre, →OCLC, paragraph 33:
  Thus much I vvas vvilling to premit, to avvaken you, if it pleaſe you to heare it, to a iuſt loue of your ovvne ſafetie, of the peace of your Countrey, of the honour and reputation of your Countreymen, and of the integritie of that, vvhich you call the Catholicke cauſe; […]
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 40, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
  the more I had laden my selfe with coine, the more I had also burdened my selfe with feare: sometimes of my wayes-safetie, othertimes of their trust that had the charge of my sumpters and baggage […].
- 1622, John Downame, chapter IX, in A Guide to Godlynesse: or, A Treatise of A Christian Life, page 59:
  Feare is the foundation of health and ſafetie ; and preſumption the impediment of feare.