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Sure is a related term of undoubting.


As adjectives the difference between sure and undoubting

is that sure is while undoubting is experiencing or harboring no doubts; entirely confident.

sure

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Physically secure and certain, non-failing, reliable.
  • Certain in one's knowledge or belief.
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  • Certain to act or be a specified way.
  • (obsolete) Free from danger; safe; secure.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Fear not; the forest is not three leagues off; / If we recover that we are sure enough.
  • (obsolete) Betrothed; engaged to marry.
  • * Sir T. More
    • The king was sure to Dame Elizabeth Lucy, and her husband before God.
  • * Brome
    • I presume that you had been sure as fast as faith could bind you, man and wife.

    Synonyms

    * (secure and steadfast) certain, failsafe, reliable * (sense, steadfast in one's knowledge or belief) certain, positive, wis

    Derived terms

    * for sure * surely * sure up (sure)

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Without doubt.
    • Sure he's coming! Why wouldn't he?
    "Did you kill that bear yourself? ?"I sure did!"

    Usage notes

    * Often proscribed in favor of surely. May be informal.

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • (rft-sense) Yes, of course.

    • Synonyms

    * certainly, of course, OK, yes

    References

    * 1996, T.F. Hoad, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Etymology , Oxford University Press, ISBN 0192830988

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    undoubting

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Experiencing or harboring no doubts; entirely confident.
  • *1665 , George Wither, Meditations on the Lord's Prayer , London, p. 75,
  • *:And we shall have an undoubting assurance that that this Kingdom is in such a measure within us, as will ripen to perfection in due time.
  • *1787 , , Treatise concerning the religious affections , Robert Hodge (New York), p. 196,
  • *:And God's declared design in all this is, that the heirs of the promises might have an undoubting hope.''
  • *1814 , , Mansfield Park , ch. 22,
  • *:With undoubting decision she directly began her adieus.
  • *1919 , , Night and Day , ch. 24,
  • *:It was the part of a gentleman to preserve a bearing that was, as far as he could make it, the bearing of an undoubting lover.
  • *2002 , Mike Greenberg, "Guest, symphony an adept team," San Antonio Express-News , 6 Oct., p. 8B,
  • *:This overstuffed, smug, showy and sentimental music can almost persuade when it is performed with undoubting conviction.

    • References

    * *Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed., 1989. *Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary , 1987-1996.