assurance vs vow

assurance

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

  • Subjective certainty of one's salvation. 

  • 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. 

vow

noun
  • A declaration or assertion. 

  • A solemn promise to perform some act, or behave in a specified manner, especially a promise to live and act in accordance with the rules of a religious order. 

verb
  • To declare publicly that one has made a vow, usually to show one's determination or to announce an act of retaliation. 

  • To make a vow; to promise. 

  • To make a vow regarding (something). 

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