different between assurance vs determination

English

Alternative forms

• assuraunce (obsolete)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??????ns/, /?????ns/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???????ns/, /???????ns/
• Rhymes: -????ns
• Hyphenation: as?sur?ance

Noun

assurance (countable and uncountable, plural assurances)

1. The act of assuring; a declaration tending to inspire full confidence; that which is designed to give confidence.

   • Whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
2. The state of being assured; firm persuasion; full confidence or trust; freedom from doubt; certainty.

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

3. Firmness of mind; undoubting, steadiness; intrepidity; courage; confidence; self-reliance.

   • the affairs of the Tarkish camp together with assurance

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

   • 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.

4. Excess of boldness; impudence; audacity

   his assurance is intolerable
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.
   • c. 1766, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England

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

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

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Translations

References

• assurance in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• anacruses

French

Etymology

From assurer +? -ance.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.sy.???s/
• Rhymes: -??s

Noun

assurance f (plural assurances)

1. insurance
2. assurance

Related terms

• assurer
• assureur

Further reading

• “assurance” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From Middle English determinacion, determynacioun, from Old French determinacion, from Latin d?termin?ti?.Morphologically determine +? -ation

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??t??m??ne???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

determination (countable and uncountable, plural determinations)

1. The act of determining, or the state of being determined.

2. Bringing to an end; termination; limit.
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 13:

     So should that beauty which you hold in lease

     Find no determination: then you were

     Yourself again after yourself's decease ...

3. Direction or tendency to a certain end; impulsion.
4. The quality of mind which reaches definite conclusions; decision of character; resoluteness.
5. (countable) The state of decision; a judicial decision, or ending of controversy.
6. (countable) That which is determined upon; result of deliberation; purpose; conclusion formed; fixed resolution.
7. A flow, rush, or tendency to a particular part

8. (countable) The act, process, or result of any accurate measurement, as of length, volume, weight, intensity, etc.

9. The act of defining a concept or notion by giving its essential constituents.
10. The addition of a distinguishing feature to a concept or notion, thus limiting its extent; -- the opposite of generalization.
11. The act of determining the relations of an object, such as genus and species; the referring of minerals, plants, or animals, to the species to which they belong; classification

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Translations

Danish

Noun

determination c (singular definite determinationen, plural indefinite determinationer)

1. determination

Declension

Further reading

• “determination” in Den Danske Ordbog