assecuration

From Latin assecuratio, from assecurare.

• IPA^(key): /ˌæ.sə.kjʊəˈɹeɪ.ʃən/
  • (General American) /ˌæ.sə.kjʊˈɹeɪ.ʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

assecuration (plural assecurations)

1. (obsolete) Assurance; certainty.
   • 1863, Joseph Hall, Philip Wynter, Pharisaism and Christianity, page 672:

     This charge here, as it implies the possibility, so it signifies the convenience, use, profit, necessity of this assecuration: for sure, if it were not beneficial to us, it would never be thus forcibly urged upon us .

   • 1906, J.E.L. Seneker, Thomas Stone, Frontier Experience:

     Fritz has given me assecuration that the said paranymphal occasion will occur as suggested, and not on the Greek calends.

   • 1927, István Hajnal, A Kossuth: emigráció Törökországban, page 483:

     It was only upon that assecuration, that we passed to the Turkish territory.

2. (obsolete) Protection; safeguard; insurance.
   • 1875, Leopold von Ranke, A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, page 304:

     Association for the assecuration of the Queen , subscribed by the members of Lincoln's Inn ( Egerton Papers 208 ) .

   • 1898, Mary Augusta Scott, Elizabethan Translations from the Italian, page 182:

     A Proclamation made for the assecuration of the person of . . . . Paolo Servite, in execution of a Decree accorded, in the . . . .Councell of the Pregadie upon the 27. of Oct. 1607.

   • 1962, Trichinellosis, page 238:

     The hormones (ACTH, cortisone, Prednisone) recieved 36 patients in generally applied doses per os, i.m. or i.v. with antibiotics as an assecuration and with potassium salts.

   • 2021, Cornel Zwierlein, Prometheus Tamed: Fire, Security, and Modernities, 1400 to 1900, page 447:

     The level of policey norms, technology, administrative communication, surveying and controlling by Cameralist administrators and all those elements of the real-assecuration are one part; but the discourses on insurance as an important form of financial post-damage recovery, the development of visual representation as a function of memory, but also of admonishing and advertising, next to all forms of the projects and scientific experiments that were also involved, and which Leibniz coined the verbal-assecuration of human societies, are also of great importance.

3. (historical) A bill or charter outlining the rights granted and assured by Germanic Royalty in the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance.
   • 1897, Herbert Tuttle, History of Prussia, page 190:

     Since this second assecuration was acceptable to the Diet, which in return acknowledged Frederic William as the lawful and only prince, we shall be justified in regarding it, and the accompanying act of the Diet, as the instruments by which the public law of the province was brought into harmony with the new order of things.

   • 2013, August Dimitz, History of Carniola, page 40:

     The “assecuration” of January 14, 1571, which permitted the lords and knights in Austria the free practice of religion, was the model for the religious settlement reached in Bruck in 1572, which, at first applicable only in Styria, provided a new legal status for the Augsburg Confession throughout Inner Austria.

   • 2018, A. Ward, Europe During the Thirty Years War:

     In all the negotiations into which the Restitutor Germanieae (as Oxenstierna styled his master) now entered with the dispossessed Mecklenburg Dukes, with the House of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and with his Brandenburg brother-in-law, he showed himself resolved not only on the Pomeranian "satisfaction," but also on an "assecuration" or safeguard.