1707 D. Manley Lady's Pacquet Lett. in M.-C. d'Aulnoy Mem. Court Eng. 590 At length I thought it my duty to endeavour the reassuring of her Mind.

1816 T. B. Howell Cobbett's Coll. State Trials II. col. 1214 Upon payment of the said 9,000l. and reassuring of his said leases and interests in the said Petty Farms.

1862 Times 3 May 14/2 Mr. Mulready's picture represents a negro offering a toy for sale to a mother, whose child turns away in alarm from the black man, in spite of the mother's reassurings.

1902 ‘M. Twain’ in Harper's Weekly 6 Dec. 5/2 Alfred..did what he could..to respond with some show of heart to the Major's kindly pettings and reassurings.

1989 J. Nolan Guardians of Arsenal iii. 119 The reassuring of Korea and of Europe was integral to the NSDM‐ 242 exercise.

2005 K. Cragg Faith at Suicide 154 Part of the reason for the strong concern to see ‘fulfilment’ of Scriptures was the reassuring of Jewish actual or potential Christians still wrestling with old loyalties.

1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison V. xxviii. 180 In Italy, under the re-assuring eye of your father, mother, brothers, the next.

1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre I. xi. 176 A more reassuring introduction for a new governess could scarcely be conceived: there was no grandeur to overwhelm, no stateliness to embarrass.

1861 R. C. Trench Comm. Epist. 7 Churches Asia 114 This may not sound, at the first hearing, a reassuring word.

1884 Athenæum 14 June 754/3 If there be any fears of severance from old associations,..such works as the present may have a reassuring effect.

1910 Westm. Gaz. 28 June 7/4 Telegrams from the Cote d'Or district, the basin of the rivers Seine and Marne, convey what should be the reassuring news that the upper reaches of the two rivers are still falling, but this is discounted by the very alarming rapidity with which the flood continues to rise and spread in Paris itself.

1932 E. Waugh Black Mischief 169 It seems to me unreasonable and inconsiderate of the Minister to expect us to return to the town until we have more reassuring information about the conditions.

1989 S. Bedford Jigsaw iv. 133 How permanent they felt, these even summers, how reassuring—this will go on: we shall go on.

2002 D. E. Parkin in Adv. in Gynaecol. Surg. xiv. 160/2 There were fewer hysterectomies among those randomised to immediate tcre[= transcervical resection of the endometrium] which is reassuring.