Crossword clues for surest
surest
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sure \Sure\, a. [Compar. Surer; superl. Surest.] [OE. sur, OF. se["u]r, F. s[^u]r, L. securus; se aside, without + cura care. See Secure, and cf. Assure, Insure, Sicker sure.]
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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.
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I'm sure care 's an enemy of life.
--Shak.2. Certain to find or retain; as, to be sure of game; to be sure of success; to be sure of life or health.
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Fit or worthy to be depended on; certain not to fail or disappoint expectation; unfailing; strong; permanent; enduring. ``His sure word.''
--Keble.The Lord will certainly make my lord a sure house; because my lord fighteth the battles of the Lord.
--1 Sam. xxv. 28.The testimony of the Lord is sure.
--Ps. xix. 7.Which put in good sure leather sacks.
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Betrothed; engaged to marry. [Obs.]
The king was sure to Dame Elizabeth Lucy, and her husband before God.
--Sir T. More.I presume . . . that you had been sure as fast as faith could bind you, man and wife.
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Free from danger; safe; secure. Fear not; the forest is not three leagues off; If we recover that we are sure enough. --Shak. To be sure, or Be sure, certainly; without doubt; as, Shall you do? To be sure I shall. To make sure.
To make certain; to secure so that there can be no failure of the purpose or object. ``Make Cato sure.''
--Addison. ``A peace can not fail, provided we make sure of Spain.''
--Sir W. Temple.-
To betroth. [Obs.]
She that's made sure to him she loves not well.
--Cotgrave.Syn: Certain; unfailing; infallible; safe; firm; permanent; steady; stable; strong; secure; indisputable; confident; positive.
Wiktionary
a. (en-superlative of: sure) (qualifier: most sure)
Usage examples of "surest".
Hodges, whose admirable skill, working through the swiftest and surest fingers that ever held a scalpel among us, has delighted class after class, and filled our Museum with monuments which will convey his name to unborn generations?
The easiest and surest why of acquiring facts is to learn them in groups, in systems, and systematized knowledge is science.
The ancient writer could have had no idea of the medical significance of what he saw, but any doctor nowadays can tell you that the separation of dark clot from watery serum is one of the surest indications of death.
Beethoven improved the piano style in the surest and most influential manner possible.
She was the surest, severest critic and yet each man preached to her feeling that with the criticism would come kindliness and the sort of mother comfort that Grandma somehow knew how to give to the meanest and most blundering of creatures.
There was no mistaking the intent was to steal it away from her, and it was not difficult to imagine the surest way to do it would be to strike out at those she loved.
The surest sign that Anna was prepared to go was the lack of protest as Cy-belline got to her feet.
The extreme conclusions, peppery rhetoric, and passionate declamation of the leaders on both sides, who aim at sensation and victory, are surest to awaken the enthusiasm of the extremists, who always direct the admiring gaze of heir parasites to the favorite representatives of their own party, their scorn to the favorite representatives of the other party.
This subordination of the stream to the lake is surest to take place with those in whom pure mind most predominates, whose spirit is least roiled by the perturbation of the senses.
The light of your soul illumined the land which received you, and for forty years you were for us the sweetest echo of the gospel and the surest road to honor.
When he had downed a second bowlful, she was well satisfied, declaring that a good appetite was the surest sign of healing.
Because of the high adaptation in the soil of the two provinces first named, and the plentifulness of the snowfall, clover in these is one of the surest of the crops grown.
But the surest way of realizing that its nature demands this combination of unity and duality is to proceed upwards from the Soul, where the distinction can be made more dearly since the duality is exhibited more obviously.
Gunfighting a berserker, one that knew at least approximately where you were trying to stay hidden, was not the surest way to make a long-term contribution.
And the surest way to do that is to destroy them utterly, like the infestation they are.