Assurance

/əˈʃɔːɹəns/ · noun

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. The act of assuring; a declaration intended to inspire full confidence; something designed to give confidence to someone.
2. The state of being assured; total confidence or trust; a lack of doubt; certainty; guarantee.
3. Firmness of mind; undoubting steadiness; intrepidity, courage, or self-confidence.
4. Excessive boldness; impudence; audacity
5. (obsolete) Betrothal; affiance.
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. (law) Any written or other legal evidence of the conveyance of property; a conveyance; a deed.
8. (theology) Subjective certainty of one's salvation.

Example Sentences

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

Assurances of support came pouring in daily.

Madam, it has been represented to me that you are appalled by my exalted rank. I desire to convey to you officially my assurance, that if your hesitation is attributable to that circumstance, it is uncalled for.

Let us draw with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience.

The storm took countless lives and forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee from their communities with no assurance of returning soon.

the affairs of the Tarkish camp together with assurance

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

This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking.[…]His air, of self-confident assurance, seemed that of a man well used to having his own way.

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• assurances
• assuraunce

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