assurance

English

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for assurance in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Alternative forms

Etymology

Middle English assuraunce, Old French asseürance, from asseürer; as if assure +‎ -ance.

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /əˈʃʊɹəns/, /əˈʃɝəns/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əˈʃʊəɹəns/, /əˈʃɔːɹəns/
  • Rhymes: -ʊəɹəns
  • Hyphenation: as‧sur‧ance
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Noun

assurance (countable and uncountable, plural assurances)

  1. The act of assuring; a declaration tending to inspire full confidence; that which is designed to give confidence.
    • Acts xvii. 31.
      Whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
    • Thomas Macaulay (1800-1859)
      Assurances of support came pouring in daily.
  2. The state of being assured; firm persuasion; full confidence or trust; freedom from doubt; certainty.
    • Hebrews x. 22.
      Let us draw with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience.
  3. Firmness of mind; undoubting, steadiness; intrepidity; courage; confidence; self-reliance.
    • Richard Knolles (1545-1610)
      Brave men meet danger with assurance.
    • John Locke (1632-1705)
      Conversation with the world will give them knowledge and assurance.
    • 1915, Emerson Hough, The Purchase Price, chapterI:
      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.
  4. Excess of boldness; impudence; audacity
    his assurance is intolerable
    • 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, volume I, chapter 7:
      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.
  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. Recently, assurance has been used, in England, 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. In England, the legal evidences of the conveyance of property are called the common assurances of the kingdom. (William Blackstone (1723-1780))

Translations

References

  • assurance in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

French

Etymology

From assurer +‎ -ance.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a.sy.ʁɑ̃s/
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  • Rhymes: -ɑ̃s

Noun

assurance f (plural assurances)

  1. insurance
  2. assurance

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