Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A statement or indication that inspires confidence; a guarantee or pledge.
- noun Freedom from doubt; certainty about something.
- noun Self-confidence.
- noun Chiefly British Insurance, especially life insurance.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of assuring; a formal or earnest statement intended to produce belief or conviction; a positive declaration intended to give confidence: as, I trusted to his assurances.
- noun Pledge; guaranty; surety.
- noun Affiance; betrothal.
- noun In law, documentary evidence of the title or right of possession of property.
- noun Insurance; a contract for the payment of a sum on the occurrence of a certain event, as loss or death.
- noun Certain proof; clear evidence; positive demonstration; undeniable grounds for belief or trust; assuredness.
- noun Firm persuasion; full confidence or trust; freedom from doubt; certain expectation; the utmost certainty.
- noun Especially Firmness of mind; undoubting steadiness; intrepidity; courage.
- noun Freedom from timidity or bashfulness; laudable confidence; self-reliance.
- noun Excess of boldness; impudence: as, his assurance is intolerable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of assuring; a declaration tending to inspire full confidence; that which is designed to give confidence.
- noun The state of being assured; firm persuasion; full confidence or trust; freedom from doubt; certainty.
- noun Firmness of mind; undoubting, steadiness; intrepidity; courage; confidence; self-reliance.
- noun Excess of boldness; impudence; audacity.
- noun obsolete Betrothal; affiance.
- noun Insurance; a contract for the payment of a sum on occasion of a certain event, as loss or death.
- noun (Law) Any written or other legal evidence of the conveyance of property; a conveyance; a deed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of assuring; a declaration tending to inspire full confidence; that which is designed to give confidence.
- noun The state of being assured; firm persuasion; full confidence or trust; freedom from doubt; certainty.
- noun Firmness of mind; undoubting, steadiness; intrepidity; courage; confidence; self-reliance.
- noun Excess of boldness; impudence; audacity; as, his assurance is intolerable.
- noun obsolete Betrothal; affiance.
- noun Insurance; a contract for the payment of a sum on occasion of a certain event, as loss or death. &hand; 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. See Insurance.
- noun law Any written or other legal evidence of the conveyance of property; a conveyance; a deed. &hand; In England, the legal evidences of the conveyance of property are called the common assurances of the kingdom. Blackstone.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a binding commitment to do or give or refrain from something
- noun a British term for some kinds of insurance
- noun freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities
- noun a statement intended to inspire confidence
Etymologies
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Examples
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The promise that his house should be blessed was intended as a compensation for the disappointment of his wish to build the temple, and hence this assurance is appropriately repeated at the conclusion of the prophet's address [Bertheau].
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'I suspect, however, that, if we were able to get a bird's-eye view of his mind and all its workings, we should discover that what he called assurance was not the condition you would call such.
Wilfrid Cumbermede George MacDonald 1864
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"This assurance is critical to mitigate the potential harm to consumers from the collection of payload data," the FTC said.
FTC Closes Inquiry Into Google Street View Brent Kendall 2010
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But at the same time – the assurance from a beta reader that I have a good piece, energises me to keep working at it.
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"This assurance is critical to mitigate the potential harm to consumers from the collection of payload data," said the FTC's David Vladeck wrote.
FTC drops inquiry into Google Street View flap Cecilia Kang 2010
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Females and their offspring receive resources and protection from the male (paternal investment), while males gain assurance of a genetic legacy (paternity certainty).
Matt J. Rossano: Thomas Aquinas: Saint of Evolutionary Psychologist? Matt J. Rossano 2010
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This assurance is part of a legal clause called Maintenance of Effort (MOE) to show that the State will maintain support for education, clarified in pages upon pages of legal explanations issued by the federal government, including how the State could have requested a Waiver of the MOE requirements.
Barbara Ann Radnofsky: AG Abbott's Constitutional Miss on Federal Education Dollars Barbara Ann Radnofsky 2010
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Females and their offspring receive resources and protection from the male (paternal investment), while males gain assurance of a genetic legacy (paternity certainty).
Matt J. Rossano: Thomas Aquinas: Saint of Evolutionary Psychologist? Matt J. Rossano 2010
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As illustrated by the BP disaster, we when, as a society, push technology to its limits on a large scale, for whatever reason, the implications of a technological or systems failure are getting to the point where we require absolute safety in operation of those systems – and obtaining such assurance is never inexpensive … and sometimes not even possible.
June « 2010 « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2010
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Females and their offspring receive resources and protection from the male (paternal investment), while males gain assurance of a genetic legacy (paternity certainty).
Matt J. Rossano: Thomas Aquinas: Saint of Evolutionary Psychologist? Matt J. Rossano 2010
whichbe commented on the word assurance
This word sounds like the bad-end of an insurance deal.
January 13, 2009