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Reassure   /rˌiəʃˈʊr/   Listen
verb
Reassure  v. t.  
1.
To assure anew; to restore confidence to; to free from fear or terror. "They rose with fear,... Till dauntless Pallas reassured the rest."
2.
To reinsure.






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"Reassure" Quotes from Famous Books



... failed, and other well-known symptoms set in. Miss Rose, diagnosing them all, prescribed by stealth some bitter remedies. The farmer regarded his change of manner with disapproval, and, concluding that it was due to his own complaints, sought to reassure him. He also pointed out that his daughter's opinion of the aristocracy was hardly likely to increase if the only member she knew went about the house as though he had just ...
— Short Cruises • W.W. Jacobs

... I had permission to visit a wounded English officer, a cousin, and I think it would reassure many people at home to know how warmly he speaks of the great kindness that has been shown him now for five months, as well as the skill and attention of the doctors.—(Times, ...
— The Better Germany in War Time - Being some Facts towards Fellowship • Harold Picton

... specter was a man and nothing more nor less, Tom had hurried back to reassure the girls. Nat turned his attention to old Abe, and, between scolding and explaining, finally succeeded in quieting the colored man's fears. But the major kept close to the lunatic—for such he took ...
— Dorothy Dale's Queer Holidays • Margaret Penrose

... firelight were those of four men with a shadowy train of pack mules extending behind them. In fringed and greasy buckskins, with long hair and swarthy faces, their feet noiseless in moccasins, they were so much of the wild, that it needed the words, "Trappers from Laramie," to reassure the doctor and make Leff put down ...
— The Emigrant Trail • Geraldine Bonner

... nonsense of her people was likely to serve his turn a good deal better; and to the task of exposing and correcting that nonsense we vigorously applied ourselves during the remaining weeks of Lent. It is true that the same statesman had once declared himself "on the side of the Angels" in order to reassure the clergy, and had once dated a letter on "Maundy Thursday" in order to secure the High Church vote. Encouraged by these signs of grace, some of his followers mildly remonstrated against a Lenten dissolution and an Easter poll. But counsels which might have weighed with Mr. Disraeli, M.P. for ...
— Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography • George William Erskine Russell


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