assurance

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a statement intended to inspire confidence

   the President's assurances were not respected

2. 2
   noun

   a binding commitment to do or give or refrain from something

   an assurance of help when needed

3. 3
   noun

   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.

4. 4
   noun

   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.

5. 5
   noun

   Firmness of mind; undoubting steadiness; intrepidity, courage, or self-confidence.

   the affairs of the Tarkish camp together with assurance

6. 6
   noun

   Excessive boldness; impudence; audacity

   His assurance is intolerable.

7. 7
   noun

   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.

8. 8
   noun

   freedom from doubt

Etymology

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