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For sure   /fɔr ʃʊr/   Listen
For sure

adjective
1.
Not open to doubt.
adverb
1.
Definitely or positively ('sure' is sometimes used informally for 'surely').  Synonyms: certainly, for certain, sure, sure as shooting, sure enough, surely.  "She certainly is a hard worker" , "It's going to be a good day for sure" , "They are coming, for certain" , "They thought he had been killed sure enough" , "He'll win sure as shooting" , "They sure smell good" , "Sure he'll come"






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"For sure" Quotes from Famous Books



... infant save; Yet since to you I nothing ever gave, For all your kindness oft on me bestowed; Your fortune wasted:—e'en your nice abode, Alas! disposed of, large supplies to raise, To entertain and please in various ways: I cannot hope this falcon to obtain; For sure I am the expectation's vane; No, rather perish child and mother too; Than such uneasiness should you pursue: Allow howe'er this parent, I beseech, Who loves her offspring 'yond the pow'r of speech, Or language to express, her only boy, ...
— The Tales and Novels, Complete • Jean de La Fontaine

... Tummus; "they say when a man's in love and can't get matters settled, he's ready to do owt. I never weer in love, so I doan't know for sure." ...
— A Life's Eclipse • George Manville Fenn

... I can tell you. But give me a little time, and I'll find out for sure. As soon as I can go home, change my clothes, and disguise myself, I'll start after him; and may I be hung, if I don't return with ...
— Baron Trigault's Vengeance - Volume 2 (of 2) • Emile Gaboriau

... all those confessions be denyed, I wonder what he will make confession, for sure it is, all these wayes have been used and took for good confessions, and many have suffered for them, and I know not what, ...
— The Discovery of Witches • Matthew Hopkins

... my son, for sure naught else would bring the Lady Cicely here unaccompanied save by a waiting-woman. The question is—what will happen now?" and he glanced ...
— The Lady Of Blossholme • H. Rider Haggard


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