assurance vs dread

assurance

noun
  • 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 

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

dread

verb
  • To be in dread, or great fear. 

  • To style (the hair) into dreadlocks. 

  • To fear greatly. 

  • To anticipate with fear. 

adj
  • Terrible; greatly feared; dreaded. 

noun
  • A Rastafarian. 

  • Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror. 

  • Somebody or something dreaded. 

  • Reverential or respectful fear; awe. 

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