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Reassure

verb

Cause to feel sure; give reassurance to. Synonym: assure.

Give or restore confidence in; cause to feel sure or certain.

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"Reassure" Quotes from Famous Books

... could produce a single articulate word; and even when he did so (to reassure his daughter and the butler) he kept momentarily relapsing into spluttering chuckles which made the ...

— Dead Souls • Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol

... that he would never tell a soul what she had just told him; pixie-shy, yet he spoke of his personal need of her—and more than anything else she had desired to hear this. He mentioned some trivial intimate plans for their unbroken, unchanged future together, so as to reassure her of its continuance. He even made ...

— The Best British Short Stories of 1922 • Edward J. O'Brien and John Cournos, editors

... man was trying to reassure himself and his companions. His meaning, no doubt, was that, being on shore, they were safe from the ghosts of those Inglez who had never achieved a landing. From the enlarging and sudden deepening ...

— Romance • Joseph Conrad and F.M. Hueffer

... her a courage which surely had not been hers otherwise. She was learning how to receive her lover's demonstrations without starting away in affright. If he ever startled her, the sound of Scott's voice in the adjoining room would always reassure her. She knew that Scott was at hand and would ...

— Greatheart • Ethel M. Dell

... rapidly as possible, because the printed copy will be placed in the hands of every person present as soon as the ceremony is over. The presiding officers of the two houses of parliament step forward and make speeches of congratulation, and reassure their sovereign of their loyalty and respect. The king then rises, bows first to the queen, and to each house in turn, and slowly leaves the chamber accompanied by the procession that ...

— Norwegian Life • Ethlyn T. Clough

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