Preassurance

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    previous assurance uncountable, usually

    "Throughout animated Nature, of each characteristic Organ and Faculty there exists a preassurance, an instinctive and practical anticipation; and no preassurance common to a whole species does in any instance prove delusive."

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"Throughout animated Nature, of each characteristic Organ and Faculty there exists a preassurance, an instinctive and practical anticipation; and no preassurance common to a whole species does in any instance prove delusive."

Etymology

From pre- + assurance.

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