assurance

See also: Assurance

English

Alternative forms

• assuraunce (obsolete)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /əˈʃʊɹəns/, /əˈʃɝəns/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈʃʊəɹəns/, /əˈʃɔːɹəns/
• Rhymes: -ʊəɹəns
• Hyphenation: as‧sur‧ance

• Audio (US):

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Noun

assurance (countable and uncountable, plural assurances)

1. The act of assuring; a declaration tending to inspire full confidence; something designed to give confidence.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 17:31:

     Whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.

   • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 9, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:

     Assurances of support came pouring in daily.

2. The state of being assured; total confidence or trust; a lack of doubt; certainty.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Hebrews 10:22:

     Let us draw with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience.

3. Firmness of mind; undoubting steadiness; intrepidity; courage; confidence; self-reliance.
   • 1603, Richard Knolles, The Generall Historie of the Turkes, […], London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:

     the affairs of the Tarkish camp together with assurance

   • 1693, [John Locke], “§70”, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], →OCLC:

     Conversation, when they come into the world, soon gives them a becoming assurance

   • 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →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.

4. Excessive boldness; impudence; audacity

   His assurance is intolerable.

   • 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, volume I, chapter 7:

     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.

5. (obsolete) Betrothal; affiance.
6. (insurance) 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. (law) Any written or other legal evidence of the conveyance of property; a conveyance; a deed.
   • 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:

     the legal evidences of the conveyance of property are called the common assurances of the kingdom.

8. (theology) Subjective certainty of one's salvation.

Derived terms

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

 

Translations

the act of assuring

• Bulgarian: уверение (bg) (uverenie)
• Danish: forsikring (da) c
• Finnish: vakuutus (fi)
• German: Zusicherung (de) f, Versicherung (de) f, Zusage (de) f, Beteuerung (de) f, Vergewisserung f, Zuspruch (de) m, Versprechen (de) n, Garantie (de) f
• Maori: kupu tūturu, kupu tūturu
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: forsikring (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: forsikring f

• Portuguese: asseguração (pt) f
• Russian: завере́ние (ru) n (zaverénije), увере́ние (ru) n (uverénije)
• Scottish Gaelic: gealltanas m
• Telugu: భరోసా (te) (bharōsā)
• Turkish: garanti (tr)
• Ukrainian: запе́внення (zapévnennja)

the state of being assured

• Bulgarian: увереност (bg) (uverenost), самоувереност (bg) (samouverenost)
• Esperanto: aplombo (eo)
• Finnish: varmuus (fi), itsevarmuus (fi)
• French: assurance (fr)
• German: Gewissheit (de) f, Zuversicht (de) f, Zuversichtlichkeit (de) f, Vertrauen (de) n, Sicherheit (de) f
• Irish: urrúsacht f
• Latin: confīdentia f
• Portuguese: garantia (pt) f, assegurado (pt) m
• Turkish: güven (tr)
• Ukrainian: впе́вненість (vpévnenistʹ), самовпе́вненість (samovpévnenistʹ)

firmness of mind

• Finnish: itsevarmuus (fi)
• French: assurance (fr)
• German: Zuversicht (de) f, Mut (de) m, Selbstsicherheit (de) f, Sicherheit (de) f, Selbstvertrauen (de) n
• Portuguese: segurança (pt)
• Spanish: certidumbre f
• Turkish: özgüven (tr)
• Ukrainian: впе́вненість (vpévnenistʹ)

excess of boldness

• Bulgarian: самоувереност (bg) (samouverenost)
• Finnish: itsevarmuus (fi)
• French: culot (fr) m
• German: Vermessenheit f, Selbstsicherheit (de) f, Verwegenheit (de) f, Dreistigkeit (de) f, Anmaßung (de) f, Frechheit (de) f
• Spanish: confianza (es) f
• Ukrainian: самовпе́вненість (samovpévnenistʹ)

insurance

• Bulgarian: застраховка (bg) (zastrahovka)
• Danish: forsikring (da) c
• Esperanto: asekuro
• Finnish: vakuutus (fi)
• French: assurance (fr) f
• German: Lebensversicherungsvertrag (de) m, Versicherung (de) f, Lebensversicherung (de) f
• Ido: asekuro (io)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: forsikring (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: forsikring f

• Portuguese: seguro (pt) m, garantia (pt) f
• Romanian: asigurare (ro) f
• Ukrainian: гара́нтія (uk) (harántija)

any written or other legal evidence of the conveyance of property

• Finnish: kauppakirja (fi)
• German: Übertragungsurkunde f, Grundstückskaufvertrag m

References

• “assurance”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “assurance”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• anacruses

French

Etymology

From assurer +‎ -ance.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.sy.ʁɑ̃s/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɑ̃s

Noun

assurance f (plural assurances)

1. self-confidence

   Synonym: confiance en soi

   agir avec beaucoup d’assurance ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

2. assurance, guarantee

   Synonym: garantie

   donner à quelqu’un l’assurance que … ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

3. insurance

   une police d’assurance, un contrat d’assurance ― an insurance policy

   une compagnie d’assurances ― an insurance company

4. insurance policy

   une assurance tous risques ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   une assurance responsabilité civile ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   une assurance habitation ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   une assurance santé ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   une assurance maladie ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   une assurance-vie ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   une assurance-chômage ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   une assurance-crédit ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

5. insurance company

   En cas de sinistre, vous devez contacter votre assurance immédiatement. ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Related terms

• assureur
• réassurance

Further reading

• “assurance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.