assurance vs trust

assurance

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

  • 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. 

  • Excessive boldness; impudence; audacity 

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

trust

noun
  • That upon which confidence is reposed; ground of reliance; hope. 

  • Confidence in the future payment for goods or services supplied; credit. 

  • A group of businessmen or traders organised for mutual benefit to produce and distribute specific commodities or services, and managed by a central body of trustees. 

  • Affirmation of the access rights of a user of a computer system. 

  • Trustworthiness, reliability. 

  • That which is committed or entrusted; something received in confidence; a charge. 

  • The condition or obligation of one to whom anything is confided; responsible charge or office. 

  • Dependence upon something in the future; hope. 

  • The confidence vested in a person who has legal ownership of a property to manage for the benefit of another. 

  • An arrangement whereby property or money is given to be held by a third party (a trustee), on the basis that it will be managed for the benefit of, or eventually transferred to, a stated beneficiary; for example, money to be given to a child when he or she reaches adulthood. 

  • Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality. 

verb
  • To rely on (something), as though having trust (on it). 

  • To have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence; to confide. 

  • To give credence to; to believe; to credit. 

  • To have faith in; to rely on for continuing support or aid. 

  • to show confidence in a person by entrusting them with something. 

  • To commit, as to one's care; to entrust. 

  • To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment. 

  • To hope confidently; to believe (usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object) 

  • To place confidence in, to rely on, to confide in. 

adj
  • of or relating to a trust. 

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