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ensured

[en-shoor, -shur]

Origin

verb (used with object), -sured, -sur·ing.

to secure or guarantee: This letter will ensure you a hearing.

to make sure or certain: measures to ensure the success of an undertaking.

to make secure or safe, as from harm.

insure (defs. 1–3).

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English ensuren < Anglo-French enseurer. See en-¹, sure

Related forms

en·sur·er, noun

un·en·sured, adjective

Synonyms
3. protect, guard, safeguard.

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ensure

late 14c., from Anglo-Fr. enseurer, from en- "make" + O.Fr. seur "sure," probably infl. by O.Fr. asseurer "assure." Related: Ensured; ensures; ensuring.

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"... while the purely carnal sight of this woman, by perpetually renewing his doubts about the qualities of her face, her body, of all her beauty, weakened his love, these doubts were destroyed, his love was ensured when it was based instead on the elements of a more reliable aesthetic; furthermore, the kiss and the act of possession which seemed natural and mediocre if accorded him by withered flesh, now completing his veneration of a museum piece, had to promise, it seemed to him, supernatural and delicious pleasures."

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