assurance vs averment

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. 

averment

noun
  • The act of averring, or that which is averred; positive assertion. 

  • verification; establishment by evidence. 

  • A positive statement of facts; an allegation; an offer to justify or prove what is alleged. 

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