surement
See also: sûrement
English
Etymology
From Middle English surement, from Old French seürement; equivalent to sure + -ment.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʃʊə(ɹ)mənt/
Noun
surement
- (obsolete) A making sure; surety.
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Frankeleyns Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], OCLC 230972125; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, OCLC 932884868:
- Euery surement and euery bond.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for surement in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Anagrams
- menstrue, muenster
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /syʁ.mɑ̃/
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Adverb
surement
- post-1990 spelling of sûrement
Further reading
- “surement”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- menteurs, mesurent, musèrent, résument
Middle English
Alternative forms
- surment
Etymology
From Old French seürement; equivalent to sure + -ment.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌsiu̯r(ə)ˈmɛnt/, /ˈsiu̯r(ə)mɛnt/
Noun
surement (plural surementz)
- A promise or oath.
Descendants
- English: surement
References
- “seurement, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-21.