assurance
/əˈʃʊɹəns/ noun B2- The act of assuring; a declaration intended to inspire full confidence; something designed to give confidence to someone.
- The state of being assured; total confidence or trust; a lack of doubt; certainty; guarantee.
- Firmness of mind; undoubting steadiness; intrepidity, courage, or self-confidence.
- Excessive boldness; impudence; audacity · His assurance is intolerable.
- 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.
- Any written or other legal evidence of the conveyance of property; a conveyance; a deed.
- Subjective certainty of one's salvation.
Plural assurances
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Bingley’s sincerity,” said Elizabeth warmly, “but you must excuse my not being convinced by assurances only.
The very first sentence conveyed the assurance of their being all settled in London for the winter, and concluded with her brother’s regret at not having had time to pay his respects to his friends in Hertfordshire before he left the country.
the earliest assurance of it; and, after making his bow as the carriage turned into the park, hurried home with the great intelligence.
But his pride, his abominable pride, his shameless avowal of what he had done with respect to Jane, his unpardonable assurance in acknowledging, though he could not justify it, and the unfeeling manner which he had mentioned Mr.
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