Adhere vs Assure - What's the difference?
adhere | assure |
To stick fast or , as a glutinous substance does; to become joined or united; as, wax to the finger; the lungs sometimes adhere to the pleura.
To hold, be attached, or devoted; to remain fixed, either by personal union or conformity of faith, principle, or opinion; as, men adhere to a party, a cause, a leader, a church.
To be consistent or coherent; to be in accordance; to agree.
To make sure and secure.
To give (someone) confidence in the trustworthiness of (something).
(obsolete) To guarantee, promise (to do something).
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.ii:
To reassure.
As verbs the difference between adhere and assure
is that adhere is while assure is .As an adjective assure is
insured.As a noun assure is
insuree.adhere
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* * ----assure
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Verb
(assur)- I assure you that the program will work smoothly when we demonstrate it to the client.
- He assured of his commitment to her happiness.
- That as a law for euer should endure; / Which to obserue in word of knights they did assure .