Definition of "reassurance" []

• The feeling of being reassured, of having confidence restored, of having apprehensions dispelled (noun)
• The act of confirming someone's opinion or impression (noun)
• Reinsurance (noun)

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• "This reassurance is all the more important now that the old "verities" of the Cold War are gone."
• "This is not by any means the only instance of financial incompetence on the part of our various Scottish ancestors, nor indeed of the tendency to resort to violence, and those patterns offer surprisingly little reassurance from the genetic standpoint."
• "Nor can it offer investors the long-term reassurance that they might need to return to Italian and Spanish bond markets."