Assuranceとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• assuraunce (obsolete)

語源

From 中期英語 assuraunce, from Old French asseürance, from asseürer; as if assure +‎ -ance.

発音

• (General American) IPA: /əˈʃʊɹəns/, /əˈʃɝəns/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /əˈʃʊəɹəns/, /əˈʃɔːɹəns/
• 韻: -ʊəɹəns
• ハイフネーション: as‧sur‧ance

名詞

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.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 17:31:

     Whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.

   • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter IX, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:

     Assurances of support came pouring in daily.

   • 1879, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, composer, H.M.S. Pinafore;  […], San Francisco: Bacon & Company,  […], →OCLC:

     Madam, it has been represented to me that you are appalled by my exalted rank. I desire to convey to you officially my assurance, that if your hesitation is attributable to that circumstance, it is uncalled for.

2. The state of being assured; total confidence or trust; a lack of doubt; certainty; guarantee.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Hebrews 10:22:

     Let us draw with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience.

   • 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

   • 1693, [John Locke], “§70”, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], →OCLC:

     Conversation, when they come into the world, soon gives them a becoming 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:

     "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.
   • 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:

     the legal evidences of the conveyance of property are called the common assurances of the kingdom.

8. (theology) Subjective certainty of one's salvation.

派生語

参照

• “assurance”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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