re-assurance

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English

Noun

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

  1. Alternative form of reassurance.
    • 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter XIII, in Sense and Sensibility , volume II, London: C Roworth, , and published by T Egerton, , →OCLC, page 246:
      Her manners gave some re-assurance to Edward, and he had courage enough to sit down; []
    • 1841, Gore, Greville: or, A Season in Paris, volume III, London: Henry Colburn, , page 128:
      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.
    • 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:
      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.