preassurance
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]preassurance (usually uncountable, plural preassurances)
- 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.