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Ensure vs Constitute - What's the difference?

ensure | constitute |

As verbs the difference between ensure and constitute

is that ensure is to make a pledge to (someone); to promise, guarantee (someone of something); to assure while constitute is to cause to stand; to establish; to enact.

As a noun constitute is

(obsolete) an established law.

ensure

English

Verb

(ensur)
  • 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 be
  • To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
  • :
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington
  • , title= Keeping the mighty honest , passage=British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.}}

    Anagrams

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    constitute

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Verb

    (constitut)
  • To cause to stand; to establish; to enact.
  • * Jeremy Taylor
  • Laws appointed and constituted by lawful authority.
  • To make up; to compose; to form.
  • * Johnson
  • Truth and reason constitute that intellectual gold that defies destruction.
  • To appoint, depute, or elect to an office; to make and empower.
  • * William Wordsworth
  • Me didst Thou constitute a priest of thine.

    Synonyms

    * establish, enact * make up, compose, form

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) An established law.
  • (Webster 1913)