Assures vs Confirm - What's the difference?
assures | confirm |
(assure)
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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 strengthen; to make firm or resolute.
(Christianity) To administer the sacrament of confirmation on (someone).
* 1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 35:
To assure the accuracy of previous statements.
As verbs the difference between assures and confirm
is that assures is while confirm is to strengthen; to make firm or resolute.assures
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Verb
(head)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 .
confirm
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Alternative forms
* confirme (obsolete)Verb
(en verb)- Elizabeth, daughter of Henry VIII, was baptized and confirmed at the age of three days.