Assurance

• 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.kkkkiiiiiiI5. 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 quot.)

9. Self-confidence, self-reliance; confidence of manner, steadiness, intrepidity.

10. In a bad sense: Hardihood, audacity, presumption, impudence.