assecuration

Noun

assecuration (plural assecurations)

1. (obsolete) Assurance; certainty.
   • This charge here, as it implies the possibility, so it signifies the convenience, use, profit, necessity of this assecuration: for sure, if it were not beneficial to us, it would never be thus forcibly urged upon us .1863, Joseph Hall, Philip Wynter, Pharisaism and Christianity, page 672
   • Fritz has given me assecuration that the said paranymphal occasion will occur as suggested, and not on the Greek calends.1906, J.E.L. Seneker, Thomas Stone, Frontier Experience
2. (obsolete) Protection; safeguard; insurance.
   • Association for the assecuration of the Queen , subscribed by the members of Lincoln's Inn ( Egerton Papers 208 ) .1875, Leopold von Ranke, A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, page 304
   • A Proclamation made for the assecuration of the person of . . . . Paolo Servite, in execution of a Decree accorded, in the . . . .Councell of the Pregadie upon the 27. of Oct. 1607.1898, Mary Augusta Scott, Elizabethan Translations from the Italian, page 182
3. (historical) A bill or charter outlining the rights granted and assured by Germanic Royalty in the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance.
   • Since this second assecuration was acceptable to the Diet, which in return acknowledged Frederic William as the lawful and only prince, we shall be justified in regarding it, and the accompanying act of the Diet, as the instruments by which the public law of the province was brought into harmony...1897, Herbert Tuttle, History of Prussia, page 190
   • The “assecuration” of January 14, 1571, which permitted the lords and knights in Austria the free practice of religion, was the model for the religious settlement reached in Bruck in 1572, which, at first applicable only in Styria, provided a new legal status for the Augsburg Confession throughout...2013, August Dimitz, History of Carniola, page 40