PREASSURANCE

Etymology

Noun

preassurance (usually uncountable, plural preassurances)

previous assurance

Throughout animated Nature, of each characteristic Organ and Faculty there exists a preassurance, an instinctive and practical anticipation; and no preassurance common to a whole species does in any instance prove delusive.

Source: Wiktionary


Pre`as*sur"ance, n.

Definition: Previous assurance. Coleridge.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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