Assurance

Quick meaning: Assurance is a noun meaning The act of assuring; a declaration intended to inspire full confidence; something designed to give confidence to someone.

Meaning

The act of assuring; a declaration intended to inspire full confidence; something designed to give confidence to someone.

More Meanings

1. The state of being assured; total confidence or trust; a lack of doubt; certainty; guarantee.
2. Firmness of mind; undoubting steadiness; intrepidity, courage, or self-confidence.
3. Excessive boldness; impudence; audacity
4. (law) Any written or other legal evidence of the conveyance of property; a conveyance; a deed.
5. (theology) Subjective certainty of one's salvation.
6. (insurance) Insurance; a contract for the payment of a sum on occasion of a certain event, as loss or death. Assurance is used in relation to life contingencies, and insurance in relation to other contingencies. It is called temporary assurance, in the time within which the contingent event must happen is limited.
7. (obsolete) Betrothal; affiance.

Example Sentences

Assurances of support came pouring in daily.

the affairs of the Tarkish camp together with assurance

Conversation, when they come into the world, soon gives them a becoming assurance

Whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.

Word Forms

• assurances
• assuraunce

Synonyms for assurance

Depending on context, synonyms include authority, confidence, self-assurance, pledge, sureness, self-confidence.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pledge, sureness, authority, self-assurance, confidence, self-confidence.

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