preassurance

English

Etymology

pre- +‎ assurance

Noun

preassurance (usually uncountable, plural preassurances)

1. previous assurance
   • 1825, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Aids to Reflection:

     Throughout animated Nature, of each characteristic Organ and Faculty there exists a preassurance, an instinctive and practical anticipation; and no preassurance common to a whole species does in any instance prove delusive.