assurance vs breach

assurance

noun
  • Any written or other legal evidence of the conveyance of property; a conveyance; a deed. 

  • Subjective certainty of one's salvation. 

  • The act of assuring; a declaration tending to inspire full confidence; something designed to give confidence. 

  • Firmness of mind; undoubting steadiness; intrepidity; courage; confidence; self-reliance. 

  • Insurance; a contract for the payment of a sum on occasion of a certain event, as loss or death. Assurance is used 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. 

  • The state of being assured; total confidence or trust; a lack of doubt; certainty. 

  • Excessive boldness; impudence; audacity 

breach

noun
  • A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment 

  • The act of breaking, in a figurative sense. 

  • A difference in opinions, social class etc. 

  • A breaking of waters, as over a vessel or a coastal defence; the waters themselves 

  • A breaking up of amicable relations, a falling-out. 

  • A breaking out upon; an assault. 

  • A gap or opening made by breaking or battering, as in a wall, fortification or levee / embankment; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence 

verb
  • To break into a ship or into a coastal defence. 

  • To make a breach in. 

  • To leap out of the water. 

  • To violate or break. 

  • To charge or convict (someone) of breaching the terms of a bail, probation, recognizance, etc. 

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