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Ratify vs Assure - What's the difference?

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Ratify is a related term of assure.


As verbs the difference between ratify and assure

is that ratify is to give formal consent to; make officially valid while assure is .

As an adjective assure is

insured.

As a noun assure is

insuree.

ratify

English

Verb

(en-verb)
  • To give formal consent to; make officially valid.

    • Synonyms

    * (give formal consent to): approve

    Related terms

    * ratification * ratifier

    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.