Definition of "assurance"

assurance

/əˈʃʊɹəns/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural assurances
1. The act of assuring; a declaration tending to inspire full confidence; something designed to give confidence.
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  Whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Acts 17:31
  Assurances of support came pouring in daily.
  1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 9, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans
2. The state of being assured; total confidence or trust; a lack of doubt; certainty.
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  Let us draw with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Hebrews 10:22
3. Firmness of mind; undoubting steadiness; intrepidity; courage; confidence; self-reliance.
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  the affairs of the Tarkish camp together with assurance
  1603, Richard Knolles, The Generall Historie of the Turkes, […], London: […] Adam Islip
  Conversation, when they come into the world, soon gives them a becoming assurance
  1693, [John Locke], “§70”, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […]
  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.
  1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company
4. Excessive boldness; impudence; audacity
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  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.
  1815, Jane Austen, Emma, volume I, chapter 7
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.
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  the legal evidences of the conveyance of property are called the common assurances of the kingdom.
  1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press
8. (theology) Subjective certainty of one's salvation.

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