Assurance

Dictionary Definition

Assurance is Insurance against an eventuality (especially Death) that must occur.

1. The act of assuring; a declaration tending to inspire full confidence; that which is designed to give confidence.
2. The state of being assured; firm persuasion; full confidence or trust; freedom from doubt; certainty.
3. firmness of mind; undoubting, steadiness; intrepidity; courage; confidence; self-reliance.

Also:

• The act of assuring; a declaration tending to inspire full confidence; that which is designed to give confidence.
• The state of being assured; firm persuasion; full confidence or trust; freedom from doubt; certainty.
• Excess of boldness; impudence; audacity; as, his assurance is intolerable.
• Betrothal; affiance.
• Insurance; a contract for the payment of a sum on occasion of a certain event, as loss or death. Recently, assurance has been used, in England, 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.
• Any written or other legal evidence of the conveyance of property; a conveyance; a deed. In England, the legal evidences of the conveyance of property are called the common assurances of the kingdom. (William Blackstone (1723-1780))