assurance

noun8

1. •
   The act of assuring; a declaration intended to inspire full confidence; something designed to give confidence to someone.

   • Whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead. — 1611
2. •
   The state of being assured; total confidence or trust; a lack of doubt; certainty; guarantee.

   • Let us draw with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience. — 1611
3. •
   Subjective certainty of one's salvation.
4. •
   Firmness of mind; undoubting steadiness; intrepidity, courage, or self-confidence.

   • Conversation, when they come into the world, soon gives them a becoming assurance — 1693
5. •
   Insurance; a contract for the payment of a sum on occasion of a certain event, as loss or death. Assurance is used in relation to life contingencies, and insurance in relation to other contingencies. It is called temporary assurance, in the time within which the contingent event must happen is limited.
6. •
   Excessive boldness; impudence; audacity

   • His assurance is intolerable.
7. •
   Any written or other legal evidence of the conveyance of property; a conveyance; a deed.

   • the legal evidences of the conveyance of property are called the common assurances of the kingdom. — 1765
8. •
   (no longer used) Betrothal; affiance.