assurance vs long shot

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. 

long shot

noun
  • A master shot, the primary wide shot of a scene into which the closeups will be edited later. 

  • A shot fired at a distant target. 

  • Something unlikely; something that has little chance of happening or working. 

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