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Ensured vs Unsured - What's the difference?

ensured | unsured |

As a verb ensured

is past tense of ensure.

As an adjective unsured is

not made sure.

ensured

English

Verb

(head)
  • (ensure)
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    ensure

    English

    Verb

    (ensur)
  • To make a pledge to (someone); to promise, guarantee (someone of something); to assure.
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  • *: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).
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  • *{{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.}}

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    unsured

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (obsolete) Not made sure.
  • Thy now unsured assurance to the crown. — Shakespeare.
    (Webster 1913)