† ensurancen.
Obsolete except in form insurance n.
1. The action of ensuring or making certain; concrete a means of ensuring.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > absence of doubt, confidence > assured fact, certainty > making certain, assurance > [noun]
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1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 143 Were some mens Petitions to men, as non-sensicall as their Prayers to God, they would need no other ensurance of their deniall.
1688 W. Penn Great Objection against Repeal of Penal Laws 16 I will never seek or value an Ensurance by Oaths and Tests.
2. Betrothal. Cf. ensure v. 4.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > betrothal > [noun]
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1469 M. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 338 I haue non very knowleche of your ensuraunce.
3. Commerce. The securing against loss in return for a fixed payment; = insurance n.
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a1641 T. Mun England's Treasure (1664) 6 To be well acquainted with the laws..of the Ensurance office.
a1695 Marquis of Halifax (T.) There will be no ensurance here to make you amends, as there is in the case of fire.
1755 in S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang.
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