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likelihood
English
Etymology
From likely +? -hood.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?la?klih?d/
Noun
likelihood (countable and uncountable, plural likelihoods)
- The probability of a specified outcome; the chance of something happening; probability; the state or degree of being probable.
- In all likelihood the meeting will be cancelled.
- The likelihood is that the inflation rate will continue to rise.
- (statistics) The probability that some fixed outcome was generated by a random distribution with a specific parameter.
- Likeness, resemblance.
- "There is no likelihood between pure light and black darkness, or between righteousness and reprobation." (Sir W. Raleigh)
- (archaic) Appearance, show, sign, expression.
- "What of his heart perceive you in his face by any likelihood he showed to-day ?" (Shak)
Synonyms
- likeliness
- odds
Antonyms
- unlikelihood
Derived terms
- in all likelihood
Translations
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assurance
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)
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Excess of boldness; impudence; audacity
- his assurance is intolerable
- (obsolete) Betrothal; affiance.
- (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.
- (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.
- c. 1766, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England
- (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)
- insurance
- assurance
Related terms
- assurer
- assureur
Further reading
- “assurance” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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