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Obtest vs Assure - What's the difference?

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Obtest is a related term of assure.


As verbs the difference between obtest and assure

is that obtest is (archaic|ambitransitive) to implore, beseech, plead, beg while assure is .

As an adjective assure is

insured.

As a noun assure is

insuree.

obtest

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (archaic, ambitransitive) To implore, beseech, plead, beg.
  • (archaic, ambitransitive) To call on a witness (often God) to confirm that something is true.
    • (Dryden)

    assure

    English

    Verb

    (assur)
  • To make sure and secure.
  • To give (someone) confidence in the trustworthiness of (something).
    • I assure you that the program will work smoothly when we demonstrate it to the client.
    He assured of his commitment to her happiness.
  • (obsolete) To guarantee, promise (to do something).
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.ii:
    • That as a law for euer should endure; / Which to obserue in word of knights they did assure .
  • To reassure.