ASSURANCE

Assurance

Assurance is a Protestant Christian doctrine that states that the inner witness of the Holy Spirit allows the justified disciple to know they are saved. Based on the writings of St. Augustine of Hippo, assurance was historically a very important doctrine in Methodism, Lutheranism, and Calvinism, and remains so among some members of these groups today.

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assurance

Noun

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


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