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Assurance   /əʃˈʊrəns/   Listen
Assurance

noun
1.
Freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities.  Synonyms: authority, confidence, self-assurance, self-confidence, sureness.  "After that failure he lost his confidence" , "She spoke with authority"
2.
A binding commitment to do or give or refrain from something.  Synonym: pledge.  "Signed a pledge never to reveal the secret"
3.
A statement intended to inspire confidence.
4.
A British term for some kinds of insurance.



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"Assurance" Quotes from Famous Books



... upon her capital stock of love; and she describes her marriage with Napoleon as one induced by the representations of Barras and Mad. Tallien of the advantages to be derived from it. She thus characterizes her feelings toward Bonaparte just before marriage. "I discovered in him a tone of assurance and exaggerated pretension, which injured him greatly in my estimation. The more I studied his character, the more I discovered the oddities for which I was at a loss to account; and at length he inspired me with so much aversion that I ceased to frequent ...
— Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXII No. 4, April 1848 • Various
... path. It is impossible to prove that a miracle occurred in the past, and we shall doubtless have a long time to wait before one takes place under such conditions as could alone give a right-minded person the assurance ...
— Recollections of My Youth • Ernest Renan
... poured on Sir Hugh Palliser, Keppel's second in command, whose tardiness in obeying signals was charged as the cause of the French escape; so strong had already become the national assurance that a British fleet could go forth only to victory. But the succession of courts-martial cleared up nothing except the characters of the two admirals. Palliser was enabled to show that his ship had suffered so much from ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXLII. Vol. LV. April, 1844 • Various
... a very embarrassing pause. No one knew what to say. Geary alone regained his assurance at length, and began a lively interchange of chaff with one of them. The others could ...
— Vandover and the Brute • Frank Norris
... advise it," said Kieff, with a self-assurance that seemed to knock aside her resistance as ...
— The Top of the World • Ethel M. Dell


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