Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act of assuring.
- n. A statement or indication that inspires confidence; a guarantee or pledge: gave her assurance that the plan would succeed.
- n. Freedom from doubt; certainty: set sail in the assurance of favorable winds. See Synonyms at certainty.
- n. Self-confidence. See Synonyms at confidence.
- n. Excessive self-confidence; presumption.
- n. Chiefly British Insurance, especially life insurance.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. 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.
- n. Pledge; guaranty; surety.
- n. Affiance; betrothal.
- n. In law, documentary evidence of the title or right of possession of property.
- n. Insurance; a contract for the payment of a sum on the occurrence of a certain event, as loss or death.
- n. Certain proof; clear evidence; positive demonstration; undeniable grounds for belief or trust; assuredness.
- n. Firm persuasion; full confidence or trust; freedom from doubt; certain expectation; the utmost certainty.
- n. Especially Firmness of mind; undoubting steadiness; intrepidity; courage.
- n. Freedom from timidity or bashfulness; laudable confidence; self-reliance.
- n. Excess of boldness; impudence: as, his assurance is intolerable.
Wiktionary
- n. The act of assuring; a declaration tending to inspire full confidence; that which is designed to give confidence.
- n. The state of being assured; firm persuasion; full confidence or trust; freedom from doubt; certainty.
- n. Firmness of mind; undoubting, steadiness; intrepidity; courage; confidence; self-reliance.
- n. Excess of boldness; impudence; audacity; as, his assurance is intolerable.
- n. obsolete Betrothal; affiance.
- n. 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.
- n. 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.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of assuring; a declaration tending to inspire full confidence; that which is designed to give confidence.
- n. The state of being assured; firm persuasion; full confidence or trust; freedom from doubt; certainty.
- n. Firmness of mind; undoubting, steadiness; intrepidity; courage; confidence; self-reliance.
- n. Excess of boldness; impudence; audacity.
- n. obsolete Betrothal; affiance.
- n. Insurance; a contract for the payment of a sum on occasion of a certain event, as loss or death.
- n. (Law) Any written or other legal evidence of the conveyance of property; a conveyance; a deed.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a binding commitment to do or give or refrain from something
- n. a British term for some kinds of insurance
- n. freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities
- n. a statement intended to inspire confidence
Etymologies
- Middle English assuraunce, Old French assurance, from assurer; as if assure + -ance. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“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].”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“But at the same time – the assurance from a beta reader that I have a good piece, energises me to keep working at it.”
“Females and their offspring receive resources and protection from the male (paternal investment), while males gain assurance of a genetic legacy (paternity certainty).”
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“This assurance is critical to mitigate the potential harm to consumers from the collection of payload data," the FTC said.”
The Wall Street Journal: FTC Closes Inquiry Into Google Street View
“This assurance is critical to mitigate the potential harm to consumers from the collection of payload data," said the FTC's David Vladeck wrote.”
The Washington Post: FTC drops inquiry into Google Street View flap
“This assurance is critical to mitigate the potential harm to consumers from the collection of payload data," David Vladeck, head of the FTC's Consumer Protection Bureau, wrote in closing the review.”
“This assurance from the Fed gives them every reason to pull similar tricks again.”
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