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assurance en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (US) audio
  • /əˈʃʊəɹəns/ without the pour–poor merger
  • /əˈʃɔːɹəns/ pour–poor merger
  • /əˈʃɝəns/ (General-American)
  • /əˈʃʊɹəns/ (General-American)

Etymology

From Middle English assuraunce, from Old French asseürance, from asseürer; as if assure + -ance.

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) The act of assuring; a declaration intended to inspire full confidence; something designed to give confidence to someone.
    • 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, […], →OCLC, Acts 17:31:
    • Madam, it has been represented to me that you are appalled by my exalted rank. I desire to convey to you officially my assurance, that if your hesitation is attributable to that circumstance, it is uncalled for. 1879, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, composer, H.M.S. Pinafore; […], San Francisco: Bacon & Company, […], →OCLC:
    • Assurances of support came pouring in daily. 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter IX, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
  2. (countable, uncountable) The state of being assured; total confidence or trust; a lack of doubt; certainty; guarantee.
    • 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, […], →OCLC, Hebrews 10:22:
    • The storm took countless lives and forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee from their communities with no assurance of returning soon. 2005 September 10, George W. Bush, Presidential Radio Address:
  3. (countable, uncountable) Firmness of mind; undoubting steadiness; intrepidity, courage, or self-confidence.
    • 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, […], →OCLC:
    • 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, →OCLC:
    • the affairs of the Tarkish camp together with assurance 1603, Richard Knolles, The Generall Historie of the Turkes, […], London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:
    • "Oh, that wouldn't make any difference," Benny replied with great assurance as he started to go out again. 1924, Gertrude Chandler Warner, sectionTrouble^([The Box-Car Children]):
  4. (countable, uncountable) Excessive boldness; impudence; audacity
    • 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:
    • His assurance is intolerable.
  5. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) Betrothal; affiance.
  6. (countable, uncountable) 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. (countable, uncountable) Any written or other legal evidence of the conveyance of property; a conveyance; a deed.
    • 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, →OCLC:
  8. (countable, uncountable) Subjective certainty of one's salvation.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
assuraunce alternative, obsolete lexicographic
assurances Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

software assurance · self-assurance · increasing term assurance · preassurance · blessed assurance · life assurance · decreasing term assurance · unassurance · reassurance · quality assurance · assurances · endowment assurance · term assurance · counterassurance · nonassurance · level term assurance · information assurance

Translations (90)

bg самоувереност (excess of boldness) · uk самовпе́вненість (excess of boldness) · ca assegurança (insurance) · da forsikring (insurance) · de Zuversicht (firmness of mind) · bg самоувереност (the state of being assured) · nb forsikring (the act of assuring) · uk гара́нтія (insurance) · de Vertrauen (the state of being assured) · fi itsevarmuus (firmness of mind) · nn forsikring (insurance) · de Zuspruch (the act of assuring) · bg застрахо́вка (insurance) · de Vergewisserung (the act of assuring) · de Vermessenheit (excess of boldness) · uk запе́внення (the act of assuring) · uk впе́вненість (the state of being assured) · de Sicherheit (firmness of mind) · ga urrúsacht (the state of being assured) · fr assurance (the state of being assured) · de Selbstvertrauen (firmness of mind) · io asekuro (insurance) · ca confiança (excess of boldness) · de Verwegenheit (excess of boldness) · bg увереност (the state of being assured) · ca promessa (the act of assuring) · hi आश्वासन (the act of assuring) · de Grundstückskaufvertrag (any written or other legal evidence of the conveyance of property) · fi varmuus (the state of being assured) · es aseguramiento (the state of being assured) · de Sicherheit (the state of being assured) · pt assegurado (the state of being assured) · pt asseguração (the act of assuring) · nb forsikring (insurance) · eo asekuro (insurance) · de Dreistigkeit (excess of boldness) · fi vakuutus (the act of assuring) · de Mut (firmness of mind) · uk самовпе́вненість (the state of being assured) · uk впе́вненість (firmness of mind) · ro asigurare (insurance) · de Frechheit (excess of boldness) · te భరోసా (the act of assuring) · fr assurance (firmness of mind) · de Versprechen (the act of assuring) · la confīdentia (the state of being assured) · ru увере́ние (the act of assuring) · fi vakuutus (insurance) · fr assurance (insurance) · nn forsikring (the act of assuring) · tr garanti (the act of assuring) · de Versicherung (the act of assuring) · fi itsevarmuus (the state of being assured) · mi kupu tūturu (the act of assuring) · pt garantia (the state of being assured) · de Lebensversicherungsvertrag (insurance) · de Garantie (the act of assuring) · de Übertragungsurkunde (any written or other legal evidence of the conveyance of property) · fi itsevarmuus (excess of boldness) · gd gealltanas (the act of assuring) · de Zuversicht (the state of being assured) · de Versicherung (insurance) · de Beteuerung (the act of assuring) · de Gewissheit (the state of being assured) · eo aplombo (the state of being assured) · ca certesa (the state of being assured) · tr özgüven (firmness of mind) · fr culot (excess of boldness) · da forsikring (the act of assuring) · pt seguro (insurance) · ca certesa (firmness of mind) · de Zuversichtlichkeit (the state of being assured) · es aseguranza (the state of being assured) · hi बीमा (insurance) · es aseguramiento (the act of assuring) · de Anmaßung (excess of boldness) · de Zusage (the act of assuring) · ru завере́ние (the act of assuring) · de Zusicherung (the act of assuring) · de Selbstsicherheit (firmness of mind) · fi kauppakirja (any written or other legal evidence of the conveyance of property) · pt segurança (firmness of mind) · tr güven (the state of being assured) · bg уверение (the act of assuring) · ca confiança (the state of being assured) · hi आश्वस्त (the state of being assured) · es aplomo (the state of being assured) · de Lebensversicherung (insurance) · pt garantia (insurance) · de Selbstsicherheit (excess of boldness)