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.
The condition of being held in a state between two or more forces, which are acting in opposition to each other.
State of an elastic object which is stretched in a way which increases its length.
A feeling of nervousness, excitement, or fear that is created in a movie, book, etc.; suspense.
Force transmitted through a rope, string, cable, or similar object (used with prepositions on, in, or of, e.g., "The tension in the cable is 1000 N", to convey that the same magnitude of force applies to objects attached to both ends).
Voltage. Usually only the terms low tension, high tension, and extra-high tension, and the abbreviations LT, HT, and EHT are used. They are not precisely defined; LT is normally a few volts, HT a few hundreds of volts, and EHT thousands of volts.
Psychological state of being tense.
To place an object in tension, to pull or place strain on.