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reassure, v.|riːəˈʃʊə(r)|
[f. re- 5 a + assure v. Cf. F. rassurer (Of. rasseurer), and, in sense 3, réassurer (1681 in Littré).]
†1. trans. To re-establish, confirm (a thing). Also const. to (a person).
b. To confirm (one) again in (an honour). Obs.
1613Sir R. Boyle in Lismore Papers (1886) I. 28, I..reassured the said land to him by my lease for xxi yeares. 1637Saltonstall Eusebius' Constantine 36 [They] were restored to their former dignities, and reassured their former honours. a1711Ken Anodynes Poet. Wks. 1721 III. 422 They long sharp Penances endur'd, Till ghostly Health was reassur'd. 1764Churchill Gotham iii. Poems 1772 III. 153 Ere 'tis too late wish'd Health to re-assure.
2. To restore (a person, the mind, etc.) to confidence. † Also const. from (a fear), and with inf.
1598Dallington Meth. Trav. M iij, By this meanes hee should reassure other Cities that then stoode wauering. 1687A. Lovell tr. Thevenot's Trav. ii. 184, I endeavoured to reassure him and the rest from the fear which made him speak so. 1697Dryden æneid viii. 146 They rose with Fear,..Till dauntless Pallas reassur'd the rest, To pay the Rites. 1728Eliza Heywood tr. Mad. de Gomez's Belle A. (1732) II. 289 The Air with which I spoke these Words something re-assuring him. 1806T. S. Surr Winter in Lond. III. 34 With a calmness of manner that reassured me, as it demonstrated that he had no suspicion of me. 1879McCarthy Own Times II. xxviii. 333 This was a sort of explanation more likely to alarm than to reassure the public.
b. To confirm again in an opinion or impression. Const. of.
1811Syd. Smith Lett. lxxvi, There is great happiness in the country, but it requires a visit to London every year to reassure yourself of this truth. 1821Byron Juan iii. xxxvii, And long he paused to reassure his eyes.
3. To reinsure.
1826–30Kent Comm. v. xlviii. (1858) III. 368 The insurer may have the entire sum he hath insured, reassured to him by some other insurer. 1828Webster, Reassure, to insure a second time against loss..; to insure against loss that may be incurred by taking a risk.
Hence reaˈssured ppl. a.; reaˈssurement; reaˈssurer; reaˈssuring ppl. a.; reaˈssuringly adv.
1896Westm. Gaz. 28 Dec. 5/2 One of the two Johannesburg deputies..sent off a *reassured and reassuring telegram.
1891E. & D. Gerard Sensit. Plants II. ii. xii. 124 This was meant as a *reassurement, but his words startled Janet further.
1787J. A. Park Marine Insurances xv. 315 Reassurance..may be said to be a contract, which the first insurer enters into, in order to relieve himself from those risks which he has incautiously undertaken, by throwing them upon other underwriters, who are called *re-assurers. 1828Webster, Reassurer, one who insures the first underwriter. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. II. 273 In this matter the profession should take the part of the reassurer and not of the alarmist.
1861Trench Ep. 7 Churches Asia 114 This may not sound, at the first hearing, a *reassuring word. 1884Athenæum 14 June 754/3 If there be any fears of severance from old associations,..such works as the present may have a reassuring effect.
1872Geo. Eliot Middlem. xxxii, ‘I shall take a mere mouthful of ham and a glass of ale,’ he said, *reassuringly. |