reassuredadj.n.
/ˌriːəˈʃʊəd/, /ˌriːəˈʃɔːd/, U.S. /ˌriəˈʃʊ(ə)rd/ A. adj.
That has been reassured (in various senses).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pleasure > state of being consoled or relieved > [adjective]
consolate1477
recomforteda1586
reassureda1626
relieved1789
solaced1836
lightened1886
a1626 F. Bacon Wks. (1730) IV. 121 The next is, if it be an effectual clause, whether it be pursued or no? wherein the question will rest, whether the value of the reassured lands shall be only computed by rents?
1824 T. Carlyle tr. J. W. von Goethe Wilhelm Meister's Trav. ii, in Transl. from German II. 173 The carved throne..fits itself to the place with the nicest accuracy, to the great comfort of the reassured Master.
1896 Westm. Gaz. 28 Dec. 5/2 One of the two Johannesburg deputies..sent off a reassured and reassuring telegram.
1920 F. S. Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise i. ii. 78 The reassured beaux and the eternal cutting in.
1985 Slavic & East European Jrnl. 29 393 Finding the bullet hole in the wall, the reassured narrator leaves.
2007 W. D.Miscamble From Roosevelt to Truman vii. 280 Roosevelt's notion that a reassured and ‘domesticated’ Soviet Union might be integrated into a new world system.
B. n.
Insurance. With the. The party or parties who have been reinsured.
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1823 W. Phillips Treat. Law Insurance I. xiv. 325 This mode of computing the interest makes the reassured a gainer by a total loss, to the amount of the premium on the original policy.
2002 Ld. Steyn in R. Hodgin Insurance Law (ed. 2) vi. 496 The reassured is able to put onto his reinsurer the least attractive pieces of qualifying business in his book.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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