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

1. (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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)

Anagrams

• menstrue, muenster

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /syʁ.mɑ̃/

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Adverb

surement

1. 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)

1. A promise or oath.

Descendants

• English: surement

References

• “seurement, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-21.