preassurance

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noun

previous assurance

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Meanings

nounpreassurance (usually uncountable, plural preassurances)

plural preassurances

  1. uncountableusuallyprevious assurance

    Throughout animated Nature, of each characteristic Organ and Faculty there exists a preassurance, an instinctive and practical anticipation; and no preassurance common to a whole species does in any instance prove delusive.

    1825, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, Aids to Reflection in the Formation of a Manly Character on the Several Grounds of Prudence, Morality, and Religion: […], London: […] Thomas Davison, […] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC

Origin

From pre- + assurance.

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APA

preassurance. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/preassurance

MLA

“preassurance.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/preassurance. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “preassurance,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/preassurance.

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