Reassured vs Ensured - What's the difference?
reassured | ensured |
(reassure)
To assure anew; to restore confidence to; to free from fear or terror.
To reinsure.
(ensure)
To make a pledge to (someone); to promise, guarantee (someone of something); to assure.
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To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
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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.}}