assecurations

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
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
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