assurance vs commitment

assurance

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

  • Subjective certainty of one's salvation. 

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

  • 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 

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

commitment

noun
  • The trait of sincerity and focused purpose. 

  • The act of being locked away, such as in an institution for the mentally ill or in jail. 

  • The act of sending a legislative bill to committee for review. 

  • State of being pledged or engaged. 

  • Official consignment sending a person to prison or a mental health institution. 

  • Promise or agreement to do something in the future, especially 

  • Being bound emotionally or intellectually to a course of action or to another person or persons. 

  • Perpetration as in a crime or mistake. 

  • Act of assuming a financial obligation at a future date. 

How often have the words assurance and commitment occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )