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Assure v. t. (past & past part. assured; pres. part. assuring)

To make sure or certain; to render confident by a promise, declaration, or other evidence. "His promise that thy seed shall bruise our foe... Assures me that the bitterness of death Is past, and we shall live."

To declare to, solemnly; to assert to (any one) with the design of inspiring belief or confidence. "I dare assure thee that no enemy Shall ever take alive the noble Brutus."

To confirm; to make certain or secure. "And it shall be assured to him." "And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him."

To affiance; to betroth. (Obs.)

(Law) To insure; to covenant to indemnify for loss, or to pay a specified sum at death. See Insure.

Synonyms: To declare; aver; avouch; vouch; assert; asseverate; protest; persuade; convince.

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"Assure" Quotes from Famous Books

... evidence as to the Bakewell witches is too incomplete to assure us that they were not accused of killing by witchcraft. 1612. Northampton. Agnes Brown and Joane Vaughan were indicted for bewitching Master Avery and Mistress Belcher, "together with the body of a young child ...

— A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 • Wallace Notestein

... continued, toying with his glass, "that to drag Katharine from her world would be ruinous to her; to drag this child of the dunes from her world would be—to put it none too harshly—hell! I've looked the girl's antecedents up since that day on the Hills. I've had my bad moments, I can assure you. It's like trying to draw water out of an empty well to get anything against their own from these people down here; but I had hopes of the girl's mother. I pin my faith to ancestry, and I am willing to build on a very small foundation, providing ...

— Janet of the Dunes • Harriet T. Comstock

... to-day that you could trust me. You can. I assure you the storm is past; there is no more danger from it, but there is danger unless you do as I bid you. Remain quietly here till you have recovered from—from your nervous prostration. I happen to have some knowledge ...

— A Day Of Fate • E. P. Roe

... you apply to my Father for my Love? I cannot help it if he will give you my Person; but I assure you it is not in his Power, nor even in my own, to give you my Heart. Dear Sir, do but consider the ill Consequence of such a Match; you are Fifty-five, I Twenty-one. You are a Man of Business, and mightily conversant ...

— The Spectator, Volume 2. • Addison and Steele

... made haste to assure her. "Unofficially, o' course," he went on, with profound regard for the ...

— Anderson Crow, Detective • George Barr McCutcheon

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