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/rˌiəʃˈʊrəns/ Listen

noun

Reassurance n.

Assurance or confirmation renewed or repeated.

(Law) Same as Reinsurance.

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Etymology of 'Reassurance'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... face and ceased their aimless running about. Many joined in. The chorus swelled louder and louder. It was extraordinary what reassurance there was in the sound. The children sat down again, and presently like children, many of them were ...

— The Deaves Affair • Hulbert Footner

... have preferred not to converse with the old man; but the desire for reassurance, for the calming of her own fears, forced her to speak, though she knew well that Mr. Critchlow was precisely the last man in the town to give moral assistance if ...

— The Old Wives' Tale • Arnold Bennett

... hold forth again, shaking his fist at Abdul Ali and making the roof echo to his mighty bellowing. I tugged at the skirt of his cloak, and after a minute he sat down to discover what I wanted. He seemed to think I needed reassurance. He began to flood me with promises of protection. It was about a minute before I could get a word in ...

— Jimgrim and Allah's Peace • Talbot Mundy

... and waited. And as he waited he kept his eyes on the portrait of old Anthony, in the drawing-room beyond. There was a fixed, rapt look in Grayson's eyes, and there was reassurance. It was as though he would say to the portrait: "It has all come out very well, you see, sir. It always works out somehow. We worry and fret, we old ones, but the young come along, and somehow ...

— A Poor Wise Man • Mary Roberts Rinehart

... man, with a reassurance of manner, "make your mind easy on this score. Those who took me from my father, and who always intended, sooner or later, to sell me again to my original proprietor, as they have now done, calculated that, in order to make the most of their bargain, it would be politic to leave me ...

— The Count of Monte Cristo • Alexandre Dumas, Pere

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