Assure vs Justify - What's the difference?
assure | justify |
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.
To provide an acceptable explanation for.
To be a good, acceptable reason for; warrant.
* E. Everett
To arrange (text) on a page or a computer screen such that the left and right ends of all lines within paragraphs are aligned.
To absolve, and declare to be free of blame or sin
* Shakespeare
* Bible, Acts xiii. 39
To prove; to ratify; to confirm.
As verbs the difference between assure and justify
is that assure is while justify is to provide an acceptable explanation for.As an adjective assure
is insured.As a noun assure
is insuree.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 .
justify
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Alternative forms
* justifie (obsolete)Verb
- How can you justify spending so much money on clothes?
- Paying too much for car insurance is not justified .
- Nothing can justify your rude behaviour last night.
- Unless the oppression is so extreme as to justify' revolution, it would not ' justify the evil of breaking up a government.
- The text will look better justified .
- I cannot justify whom the law condemns.
- By him all that believe are justified' from all things, from which ye could not be ' justified by the law of Moses.
- (Shakespeare)