Assure
[ə'ʃʊə;ə'ʃɔː] or [ə'ʃʊr]
Definition
(verb.) assure somebody of the truth of something with the intention of giving the listener confidence; 'I assured him that traveling to Cambodia was safe'.
(verb.) inform positively and with certainty and confidence; 'I tell you that man is a crook!'.
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Definition
(v. t.) To make sure or certain; to render confident by a promise, declaration, or other evidence.
(v. t.) To declare to, solemnly; to assert to (any one) with the design of inspiring belief or confidence.
(v. t.) To confirm; to make certain or secure.
(v. t.) To affiance; to betroth.
(v. t.) To insure; to covenant to indemnify for loss, or to pay a specified sum at death. See Insure.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Make certain or sure, free from doubt or uncertainty.[2]. Embolden, encourage, enhearten, hearten, make confident.[3]. Declare to (confidently and earnestly), vouch to, avow to, protest to, warrant.[4]. (Law.) Insure, agree to indemnify for loss, secure against loss.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Advise, advertise, promise, inform, {[i]?}, rally, console, encourage,countenance, aid, support, convince, uphold, certify
ANT:Misinform, misadvise, mislead, deceive, discomfit, disconceit, deter,discourage, warn, dissuade, unsettle, intimidate
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Definition
v.t. to make sure or secure: to give confidence: (Shak.) to betroth: to tell positively: to insure.—adj. Assur′able.—n. Assur′ance confidence: feeling of certainty: self-reliance: impudence: positive declaration: insurance as applied to lives: the securing of a title to property: (theol.) subjective certainty of one's salvation: a solemn declaration or promise a certain proof: surety warrant.—adj. Assured′ certain: without doubt: insured: overbold.—adv. Assur′edly.—ns. Assur′edness; Assur′er one who gives assurance: an insurer or underwriter: one who insures his life.
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Examples
- I now take my farewell of your ladyship, and assure you that there's no danger of your ever being waited on by me again. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I never had, I do assure you, sir! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I do assure you that my intimacy has not yet taught me _that_. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- I assure you there is nothing, my dear sir. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I assure you I have no desire to be controversial. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Polemarchus and I may have been guilty of a little mistake in the argument, but I can assure you that the error was not intentional. Plato. The Republic.
- I could only assure myself that the way was clear, and then leave the house with the two letters safe in my pocket. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- It was a hard one, but you shall be assured, indeed, that I have learned it. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Be assured, that for my own sake, as well as your's, I will not rashly encounter danger. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- With the opening of this line the success of the railroad as a practical means of conveyance became assured. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Margaret might be assured he would take every precaution against being tracked by Leonards. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I had assured myself that the man was sober as well as civil before I let her enter the vehicle. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I am returned to Mansfield in a less assured state than when I left it. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Elinor, rejoiced to be assured of his being in London, now ventured to say, Depend upon it, he will call again tomorrow. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Major Murphy, to whom I owe most of my facts, assures me that he has never heard of any misunderstanding between the pair. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- My Lady, with a disdainful gesture of the hand that holds the screen, assures him of his being worth no complaint from her. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Only the single, the uniform, assures coherence and harmony. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The account of what was imported under register, he assures us, is exact. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Increased intelligence assures perpetuation of other species in novel and unf oreseen conditions. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Your manner, no less than your actions, assures me that you have never forgotten it, or ceased to think of it with bitterness,' returned Mr. Brownlow. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Bonajutus assures us, that of 18,914 inhabitants, 18,000 perished therein. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- By assuring me that my kinswoman is my sincere friend? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Shall we begin by assuring him that he is welcome to any knowledge which he may have, and that we are rejoiced at his having it? Plato. The Republic.
- I caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice of Holmes from within assuring them that it was a false alarm. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- We were impressed that it could circle on forever, or sail like a bird over the country, so positive and assuring and complete was this demonstration. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- I invented news of the most pacifying kind, assuring her that she was about to see her sister at my house. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Miss Jellyby proceeded, after begging Peepy's pardon with a kiss and assuring him that she hadn't meant to do it. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- With such a retrospect, the sage of the Nineteenth Century may lie down to quiet rest, with an assuring faith that what God hath wrought is good, and what is not may yet be. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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