Enure vs Ensure - What's the difference?
enure | ensure |
to inure; to become accustomed or desensitized to something unpleasant due to constant exposure.
(intransitive, chiefly, legal) With "to": to take effect, to be operative.
:: All our striving enures to our own spiritual benefit.
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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As verbs the difference between enure and ensure
is that enure is to inure; to become accustomed or desensitized to something unpleasant due to constant exposure while ensure is to make a pledge to (someone); to promise, guarantee (someone of something); to assure.enure
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(enur)- 1934 , Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Commentary on The Holy Qur'an , note 3428 on 29:6:
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(ensur)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.}}