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Sure   /ʃʊr/   Listen
adjective
Sure  adj.  (compar. surer; superl. surest)  
1.
Certainly knowing and believing; confident beyond doubt; implicity trusting; unquestioning; positive. "We are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things." "I'm sure care 's an enemy of life."
2.
Certain to find or retain; as, to be sure of game; to be sure of success; to be sure of life or health.
3.
Fit or worthy to be depended on; certain not to fail or disappoint expectation; unfailing; strong; permanent; enduring. "His sure word." "The Lord will certainly make my lord a sure house; because my lord fighteth the battles of the Lord." "The testimony of the Lord is sure." "Which put in good sure leather sacks."
4.
Betrothed; engaged to marry. (Obs.) "The king was sure to Dame Elizabeth Lucy, and her husband before God." "I presume... that you had been sure as fast as faith could bind you, man and wife."
5.
Free from danger; safe; secure. "Fear not; the forest is not three leagues off; If we recover that we are sure enough."
To be sure, or Be sure, certainly; without doubt; as, Shall you do? To be sure I shall.
To make sure.
(a)
To make certain; to secure so that there can be no failure of the purpose or object. "Make Cato sure." "A peace can not fail, provided we make sure of Spain."
(b)
To betroth. (Obs.) "She that's made sure to him she loves not well."
Synonyms: Certain; unfailing; infallible; safe; firm; permanent; steady; stable; strong; secure; indisputable; confident; positive.



adverb
Sure  adv.  In a sure manner; safely; certainly. "Great, sure, shall be thy meed." "'T is pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print."






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"Sure" Quotes from Famous Books



... daughter, cease thine evil mind, Cease thy fierce pride! For pride it is, and blind, To seek to outpass gods!—Love on and dare: A god hath willed it! And, since pain is there, Make the pain sleep! Songs are there to bring calm, And magic words. And I shall find the balm, Be sure, to heal thee. Else in sore dismay Were men, could not we women ...
— Hippolytus/The Bacchae • Euripides

... is slightly at fault, old man," he said. "I am sure Merriwell bowled over at least one man, and dodged one or two others, besides going down the field like a wild engine, with Princeton's fastest runner at his heels and unable to tackle him. Oh, it is not all luck with Merriwell, Thornton, as you would acknowledge, ...
— Frank Merriwell's Races • Burt L. Standish

... influenced by Josephine's final argument. For when she had said "No, I cannot come to the wedding," for about the fourth time, Josephine shot her last bolt in these words: "Oh, dear Leam, do come. I am sure Edgar will be hurt and displeased if you are not one of my bridesmaids. He will think you do not like the connection, and you know what a proud man he is: he will ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVII. No. 101. May, 1876. • Various

... Girshel, shaking his side-locks. 'Your honour doesn't believe me.... Ay... ay....' The Jew closed his eyes and slowly wagged his head to right and to left.... 'Oh, I know what his honour the officer would like.... I know,... to be sure I do!' ...
— The Jew And Other Stories • Ivan Turgenev

... had in the audience, a pitiless censor of his deeds and gestures, in the person of our friend Jehan Frollo du Moulin, that little student of yesterday, that "stroller," whom one was sure of encountering all over Paris, anywhere except before the rostrums ...
— Notre-Dame de Paris - The Hunchback of Notre Dame • Victor Hugo


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