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preassurance|priːəˈʃʊərəns|
[pre- A. 2.]
1. An assurance given or received beforehand.
1635Jackson Creed viii. xvi. §2 That great deliverance whereof the first Passover in Egypt was the pledge, or preassurance. 1645King's Cabinet Open. in Select. fr. Harl. Misc. (1793) 342 The treaty shall be renewed upon..a pre-assurance, that the rebels will submit to reason.
2. A previous assurance or feeling of certainty in one's own mind; an assured presentiment.
1671Woodhead St. Teresa i. Pref. 33 Who have, many times, a pre-assurance, before..their asking, of their obtaining it. 1825Coleridge Aids Refl. (1848) I. 287 No preassurance common to a whole species does in any instance prove delusive. |