reassurance

Noun

Meaning

Assurance or confirmation renewed or repeated.

Same as Reinsurance.

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Examples

A career in sport is almost impossible to manage without the support, and guidance, and reassurance of family and friends. During tough times, and there always are, this is whom we go to. Rahul Dravid

Any loss of identity prompts people to seek reassurance and rediscovery of themselves by testing, and even by violence. Today, the electric revolution, the wired planet, and the information environment involve everybody in everybody to the point of individual extinction. Marshall McLuhan

Pity can purge us of hostility and arouse feelings of identification with the characters, but it can also be a consoling reassurance which leads us to believe that we have understood, and that, in pitying, we have even done something to right a wrong. Richard Wright

What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else? Eric Hoffer

It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. F. Scott Fitzgerald

However, Hoover had converted the simple business ritual of reassurance into a major instrument of public policy. John Kenneth Galbraith

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