The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word ASSURANCE
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More clues leading to the result ASSURANCE
- Confidence as ace runs round the bend?
- Russian ace possibly I overlooked in confidence
- Idiot you texted operated cellphone lacking core security
- Guarantee a variety of users will receive a new computer at the outset
- Causes trouble about artist getting new guarantee
- Uses car with an awful confidence
- A Sun scare unlikely to engender feeling of confidence
- Fool fled Church around start of ultimate vow
- Charlie stood around posh before Church affirmation…
- Declaration from winner taking runs as ordered
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What does ASSURANCE mean?
ASSURANCE noun- The act of assuring; a declaration tending to inspire full confidence; that which is designed to give confidence.
- The state of being assured; firm persuasion; full confidence or trust; freedom from doubt; certainty.
- Firmness of mind; undoubting, steadiness; intrepidity; courage; confidence; self-reliance.
- Excess of boldness; impudence; audacity
- Betrothal; affiance.
- Insurance; a contract for the payment of a sum on occasion of a certain event, as loss or death. Recently, assurance has been used, in England, in relation to life contingencies, and insurance in relation to other contingencies. It is called temporary assurance, in the time within which the contingent event must happen is limited.
- Any written or other legal evidence of the conveyance of property; a conveyance; a deed.
- Subjective certainty of one's salvation.