Assurance

1. n. Any written or other legal evidence of the conveyance of property; a conveyance; a deed.
2. n. The act of assuring; a declaration tending to inspire full confidence; that which is designed to give confidence.
3. n. The state of being assured; firm persuasion; full confidence or trust; freedom from doubt; certainty.
4. n. Firmness of mind; undoubting, steadiness; intrepidity; courage; confidence; self-reliance.
5. n. Excess of boldness; impudence; audacity; as, his assurance is intolerable.
6. n. Betrothal; affiance.
7. n. Insurance; a contract for the payment of a sum on occasion of a certain event, as loss or death.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.