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Reassure


REASSURE, verb transitive reashu're. [re and assure.]

1. To restore courage to; to free from fear or terror.

They rose with fear, till dauntless Pallas reassur'd the rest.

2. To insure a second time against loss, or rather to insure by another what one has already insured; to insure against loss that may be incurred by taking a risk.