different between assurance vs hope

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.

Derived terms

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: h?p, IPA^(key): /h??p/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ho?p/
• Rhymes: -??p

Etymology 1

From Middle English hopen, from Old English hopian (“to expect, hope”), from Proto-West Germanic *hop?n, further etymology unclear.

Verb

hope (third-person singular simple present hopes, present participle hoping, simple past and past participle hoped)

1. (intransitive, transitive) To want something to happen, with a sense of expectation that it might.
2. To be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes.
3. (intransitive) To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good; usually followed by in.
   • 1611, Bible (King James Version), Psalms cxix. 81

     I hope in thy word.

   • 1611, Bible (King James Version), Psalms xlii. 11

     Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God.

4. (transitive, dialectal, nonstandard) To wish.

Usage notes

• This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs

Derived terms

• here's hoping
• hoped for

Translations

See also

• aspire
• desire
• expect
• look forward
• want

Etymology 2

From Middle English hope, from Old English hopa (“hope, expectation”), from the verb hope.

Noun

hope (countable and uncountable, plural hopes)

1. (countable or uncountable) The feeling of trust, confidence, belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen.

2. (countable) The actual thing wished for.
3. (countable) A person or thing that is a source of hope.

4. (Christianity, uncountable) The virtuous desire for future good.

   • But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

Derived terms

Related terms

• forlorn hope

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English hope (“a valley”), from Old English h?p (found only in placenames). More at hoop.

Noun

hope (plural hopes)

1. (Northern England, Scotland) A hollow; a valley, especially the upper end of a narrow mountain valley when it is nearly encircled by smooth, green slopes; a comb.

Etymology 4

From Icelandic hóp (“a small bay or inlet”). Cognate with English hoop.

Noun

hope (plural hopes)

1. A sloping plain between mountain ridges.
2. (Scotland) A small bay; an inlet; a haven.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Jamieson to this entry?)

Anagrams

• pheo, pheo-

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

hope

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of hopen

Maori

Noun

hope

1. waist
2. hip (ringa hope)

Shona

Etymology

From the root of Common Bantu *d??kópè, whence also chikope (“eyelid”).

Noun

hópé 10

1. sleep

West Frisian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ho?p?/

Noun

hope n (no plural)

1. Alternative form of hoop