Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Assurance or confirmation repeated.
- noun Restoration of courage or confidence; deliverance from apprehension or doubt.
- noun Same as
reinsurance .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Assurance or confirmation renewed or repeated.
- noun (Law) Same as
Reinsurance .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the feeling of being
reassured , of having confidence restored, of having apprehensions dispelled - noun the act of confirming someone's opinion or impression
- noun law, dated
reinsurance
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of reassuring; restoring someone's confidence
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Examples
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This reassurance is all the more important now that the old "verities" of the Cold War are gone.
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But the banks '"reassurance is not reassuring," says Susan Wachter, a professor of real estate at the University of Pennsylvania' s Wharton School, because it doesn 't deal with how easily they can prove ownership of the underlying mortgages.
Mortgage Damage Spreads Nick TimIraos 2010
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From that perspective, it isn't cruel to stop reassuring her; in fact, closing off this path to false reassurance is one small way you can nudge her back toward a more productive path.
Carolyn Hax: Husband strayed, and wife keeps questioning other woman Carolyn Hax 2010
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This is not by any means the only instance of financial incompetence on the part of our various Scottish ancestors, nor indeed of the tendency to resort to violence, and those patterns offer surprisingly little reassurance from the genetic standpoint.
Archive 2009-03-01 2009
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Nor can it offer investors the long-term reassurance that they might need to return to Italian and Spanish bond markets.
Euro Zone Risks Becoming Spanish Prisoner With Bond Buys Richard Barley 2011
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He gave her what he hoped was an expression of reassurance.
WORLD OF WARCRAFT STORMRAGE Richard A. Knaak 2010
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He gave her what he hoped was an expression of reassurance.
WORLD OF WARCRAFT STORMRAGE Richard A. Knaak 2010
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He gave her what he hoped was an expression of reassurance.
WORLD OF WARCRAFT STORMRAGE Richard A. Knaak 2010
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That he continued to say nothing, not a word of reassurance, appalled even him.
A Happy Marriage Rafael Yglesias 2009
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That he continued to say nothing, not a word of reassurance, appalled even him.
A Happy Marriage Rafael Yglesias 2009
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