re-assurance

A form of reassurance — The feeling of being reassured, of having confidence restored, of having apprehensions dispelled.

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Meanings

nounre-assurance (countable and uncountable, plural re-assurances)

plural re-assurances

  1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of reassurance.

    Her manners gave some re-assurance to Edward, and he had courage enough to sit down; […]

    1811, [Jane Austen], chapter XIII, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume II, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 246
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    To draw her arm closer within his own, and breathe earnest re-assurances to the timid beauty that his care and assiduity should secure her from all accidents, was a matter of course.

    1841, [Catherine] Gore, Greville: or, A Season in Paris, volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], page 128

    Without delay he disembarked from her in disguise; and after having called upon some of the chief conspirators to show himself to them in person and renew their confidence, he received their re-assurances of support in the magnificent emprise he contemplated.

    1851, F. Clinton Barrington [pseudonym; Joseph Holt Ingraham], The Bel Isabel: or, The Conspirators of Cuba. A Story of the Green Land and Blue Sea., Boston, Mass.: […] F. Gleason, […], page 80, column 2
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