surement
See also: sûrement
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English surement, from Old French seürement; equivalent to sure + -ment.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
surement
- (obsolete) A making sure; surety.
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Frankeleyns Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:
- Euery surement and euery bond.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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French edit
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Adverb edit
surement
Further reading edit
- “surement”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Middle English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old French seürement; equivalent to sure + -ment.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
surement (plural surementz)
Descendants edit
- English: surement
References edit
- “seurement, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-21.