assurance
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
insurance
law
lifestyle
religion
theology
Etymology: From Middle English assuraunce, from Old French asseürance, from asseürer; as if assure + -ance.
Base: assure
Affixes: -ance
Inflected forms:
form: assurances
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: assuraunce
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: The act of assuring; a declaration intended to inspire full confidence; something designed to give confidence to someone.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: The state of being assured; total confidence or trust; a lack of doubt; certainty; guarantee.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: Firmness of mind; undoubting steadiness; intrepidity, courage, or self-confidence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
"Oh, that wouldn't make any difference," Benny replied with great assurance as he started to go out again.
gloss: Excessive boldness; impudence; audacity
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: His assurance is intolerable.
You confined to the society of the illiterate and vulgar all your life! I wonder how the young man could have the assurance to ask it. He must have a pretty good opinion of himself.
gloss: Betrothal; affiance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any written or other legal evidence of the conveyance of property; a conveyance; a deed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the legal evidences of the conveyance of property are called the common assurances of the kingdom.
gloss: Subjective certainty of one's salvation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: assurances
blessed assurance
decreasing term assurance
endowment assurance
increasing term assurance
information assurance
level term assurance
life assurance
nonassurance
preassurance
quality assurance
reassurance
self-assurance
software assurance
term assurance
unassurance
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