Assurance
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- I. The action of assuring.* Of making certain.
- 1. A promise or engagement making a thing certain; a formal engagement, pledge, or guarantee.
- b. esp. An engagement guaranteeing peace and safety; terms of peace. Obs. exc. Hist.
- 2. A marriage engagement, betrothal. Obs.
- 3. A positive declaration intended to give confidence. Of making secure.
- 4. Law. The securing of a title to property; the conveyance of lands or tenements by deed; a legal evidence of the conveyance of property.killsI5. The action of insuring or securing the value of property in the event of its being lost, or of securing the payment of a specified sum in the event of a person's death; insurance. Technically, the present usage is to differentiate life-assurance, and fire- and marine-insurance; though, as will be seen from the quotations, assurance was the original term in reference to marine risks.
- II. The state of being sure or assured.
- 6. Objective certainty; = ASSUREDNESS 1. Obs.
- 7. Security.
- 8. Subjective certainty; a being certain as to a fact, certitude; confidence, trust.
- b. in Theol. (See quote)
- 1651 C. CARTWRIGHT Cert. Relig. I. 251 The Doctrine of Protestants concerning assurance of salvation..viz. that a man may have this assurance.
- b. in Theol. (See quote)
- 1852 SIR W. HAMILTON Disc. (1853) 508 Assurance, Personal Assurance, Special Faith, (the feeling of certainty that God is propitious to me,that my sins are forgiven).
- 9. Self-confidence, self-reliance; confidence of manner, steadiness, intrepidity.
- 10. In a bad sense: Hardihood, audacity, presumption, impudence.