ure

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1. an abstract-noun suffix of action, result, and instrument, occurring in loanwords from French and Latin: pressure; legislature.

suffix forming nouns

1. indicating act, process, or resultseizure
2. indicating function or officelegislature; prefecture

n.

“effect, operation, practice,” early 15c., from Old French uevre (13c., Modern French oeuvre), from Latin opera (see opera).

suffix forming abstract nouns of action, from Old French -ure, from Latin -ura.