assurance
Etymology
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Etymology
From Middle English assuraunce, from Old French asseurance, from asseürer; as if assure + -ance.
Pronunciation Nounassurance
- The act of assuring; a declaration tending to inspire full confidence; something designed to give confidence.
- 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 9, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC ↗:
- Assurances of support came pouring in daily.
- The state of being assured; total confidence or trust; a lack of doubt; certainty.
- Firmness of mind; undoubting steadiness; intrepidity; courage; confidence; self-reliance.
- 1603, Richard Knolles, The Generall Historie of the Turkes, […], London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC ↗:
- the affairs of the Tarkish camp together with assurance
- 1693, [John Locke], “§70”, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], →OCLC ↗:
- Conversation, when they come into the world, soon gives them a becoming assurance
- 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC ↗:
- 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.
- Excessive boldness; impudence; audacity
- His assurance is intolerable.
- (obsolete) Betrothal; affiance.
- (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.
- (legal) Any written or other legal evidence of the conveyance of property; a conveyance; a deed.
- 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC ↗:
- the legal evidences of the conveyance of property are called the common assurances of the kingdom.
- (theology) Subjective certainty of one's salvation.
- German: Zusicherung, Versicherung, Zusage, Beteuerung, Vergewisserung, Zuspruch, Versprechen, Garantie
- Portuguese: asseguração
- Russian: завере́ние
- French: assurance
- German: Gewissheit, Zuversicht, Zuversichtlichkeit, Vertrauen, Sicherheit
- Portuguese: garantia, assegurado
- French: assurance
- German: Zuversicht, Mut, Selbstsicherheit, Sicherheit, Selbstvertrauen
- Portuguese: segurança
- Spanish: certidumbre
- French: culot
- German: Vermessenheit, Selbstsicherheit, Verwegenheit, Dreistigkeit, Anmaßung, Frechheit
- Spanish: confianza
- French: assurance
- German: Lebensversicherungsvertrag, Versicherung, Lebensversicherung
- Portuguese: seguro, garantia
- German: Übertragungsurkunde, Grundstückskaufvertrag
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