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ensureth

ensureth is the third-person singular simple present indicative of ensure.

Meaning of ensure

Verb

ensure (third-person singular simple present ensures, present participle ensuring, simple past and past participle ensured)

  1. (intransitive) To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
    • I use an alarm clock to ensure that I get up on time.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To make a pledge to (someone); to promise, guarantee (someone of something); to assure.
    • Thenne he cryed hym mercy and sayd Faire knyght for goddes loue slee me not / and I shall ensure the neuer werre ageynst thy lady / but be alwey toward her / Thenne Bors lete hym be1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xvj”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVI

Origin of ensureth

ensure + -eth

Questions about ensureth

What is ensureth the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Ensureth is the third-person singular simple present indicative of ensure.

Words near ensureth in the dictionary

  1. ensured
  2. ensurer
  3. ensurers
  4. ensures
  5. ensurest
  6. ensureth
  7. ensuring
  8. enswathe
  9. enswathed
  10. enswathement
  11. enswathements

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ensureth (page history and authors); ensure (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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