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asshure

asshure is the obsolete form of assure.

Meaning of assure

Verb

assure (third-person singular simple present assures, present participle assuring, simple past and past participle assured)

  1. (transitive) To make sure and secure; ensure.
  2. (transitive) To give (someone) confidence in the trustworthiness of (something).
    • I assure you that the program will work smoothly when we demonstrate it to the client.
  3. (obsolete) To guarantee, promise (to do something).
    • That as a law for euer should endure; / Which to obserue in word of knights they did assure.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  4. (transitive) To reassure.

Forms of asshure

third-person singular presentasshures
present participleasshuring
past participleasshured
pastasshured

Questions about asshure

What is asshure the obsolete form of?
Asshure is the obsolete form of assure.

Words near asshure in the dictionary

  1. assholisms
  2. assholocene
  3. asshood
  4. asshurance
  5. asshurances
  6. asshure
  7. asshured
  8. asshures
  9. asshuring
  10. asshurt
  11. Assi

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