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reassurance|riːəˈʃʊərəns|
[re- 5 a. Cf. F. rassurance and, in sense 3, réassurance (1681).]
1. Renewed or repeated assurance; repetition of assuring statements.
1611Florio, Rassicuránza, a re-assurance. 1643Prynne Sov. Power Parl. iii. 25 He hastily dispatcheth messengers to him with great summes of Money, and a re-assurance of his tributary Subjection. 1863J. C. Jeaffreson Sir Everard's Dau. 186 So wrought upon by the re-assurances of his physician. 1873Browning Red Cotton Night-Cap Country i. 403 By reassurance of that promise old.
2. Renewed or restored confidence.
1875Church Pascal, etc. xvi. (1895) 272 We have learned from facts a reassurance which some only can find in the most self-consistent theories.
3. Reinsurance.
1745–6Act 19 Geo. II, c. 37 §4 It shall not be lawful to make Re-assurance, unless the Assurer shall be insolvent, become Bankrupt, or die. 1826–30Kent Comm. v. xlviii. (1858) III. 368 The contract of reassurance is totally distinct from, and unconnected with, the primitive insurance. |