Adverb
1. in a secure manner; in a manner free from danger;
"she held the child securely"2. in a confident and unselfconscious manner;
"he acts very securely in fron of the camera"3. in a manner free from fear or risk;
"the outcome of expansion in the sixties and seventies will be an academic hierarchy securely supported by scholastic selection"4. in an invulnerable manner;
"the agreed line was to involve at several points the withdrawal of French troops from positions which they had quite securely held"