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From Middle English assuraunce, from Old French asseürance, from asseürer; as if assure +‎ -ance.

assurance (countable and uncountable, plural assurances)

  1. The act of assuring; a declaration intended to inspire full confidence; something designed to give confidence to someone.
  2. The state of being assured; total confidence or trust; a lack of doubt; certainty; guarantee.
    • 2005 September 10, George W. Bush, Presidential Radio Address:
      The storm took countless lives and forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee from their communities with no assurance of returning soon.
  3. Firmness of mind; undoubting steadiness; intrepidity, courage, or self-confidence.
    • 1603, Richard Knolles, The Generall Historie of the Turkes, […], London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:
      the affairs of the Tarkish camp together with assurance
    • 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
      This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. […] His air, of self-confident assurance, seemed that of a man well used to having his own way.
    • 1924, Gertrude Chandler Warner, sectionTrouble‎[[[s:The Box-Car Children|The Box-Car Children]]]:
      "Oh, that wouldn't make any difference," Benny replied with great assurance as he started to go out again.
  4. Excessive boldness; impudence; audacity
    His assurance is intolerable.
    • 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, volume I, chapter 7:
      You confined to the society of the illiterate and vulgar all your life! I wonder how the young man could have the assurance to ask it. He must have a pretty good opinion of himself.
  5. (obsolete) Betrothal; affiance.
  6. (insurance) 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.
  7. (law) Any written or other legal evidence of the conveyance of property; a conveyance; a deed.
  8. (theology) Subjective certainty of one's salvation.

any written or other legal evidence of the conveyance of property

From assurer +‎ -ance.

assurance f (plural assurances)

  1. self-confidence
    Synonym: confiance en soi
    agir avec beaucoup d'assurance ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
  2. assurance, guarantee
    Synonym: garantie
    donner à quelqu'un l'assurance que … ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
  3. insurance
    une police d'assurance, un contrat d'assurance ― an insurance policy
    une compagnie d'assurances ― an insurance company
  4. insurance policy
    une assurance tous risques ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
    une assurance responsabilité civile ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
    une assurance habitation ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
    une assurance santé ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
    une assurance maladie ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
    une assurance-vie ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
    une assurance-chômage ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
    une assurance-crédit ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
  5. insurance company
    En cas de sinistre, vous devez contacter votre assurance immédiatement. ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)