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Ensue vs Insure - What's the difference?

ensue | insure |

As verbs the difference between ensue and insure

is that ensue is (obsolete|transitive) to follow (a leader, inclination etc) while insure is to provide for compensation if some specified risk occurs often agreed by policy (contract) to offer financial compensation in case of an accident, theft or other undesirable event.

ensue

English

Verb

(ensu)
  • (obsolete) To follow (a leader, inclination etc.).
  • * 1596 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , IV.ii:
  • to ripenesse of mans state they grew: / Then shewing forth signes of their fathers blood, / They loued armes, and knighthood did ensew , / Seeking aduentures [...].
  • * Golding
  • To ensue his example in doing the like mischief.
  • *1603 , (John Florio), translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays , III.11:
  • *:Oh how many changes are like to ensue this reformation!
  • Give three freshmen six bottles of wine, and hilarity will ensue .

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    insure

    English

    Verb

  • To provide for compensation if some specified risk occurs. Often agreed by policy (contract) to offer financial compensation in case of an accident, theft or other undesirable event.
  • I'm not insured against burglary.
  • To deal in such contracts; subscribe to a policy of insurance
  • (chiefly, US) : To make sure or certain of; guarantee.
  • * 1787 , ,
  • ''We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
  • : To give confidence in the trustworthiness of.
  • He insured me that there would be no further delays.

    Usage notes

    * (provide for compensation) Note that both the person taking out insurance and the company with whom the policy is taken are said to insure the risk.

    Derived terms

    * insurance * insurer * reinsure

    See also

    * inshore

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