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Restoring someone's confidence
Answer for the clue "Restoring someone's confidence ", 11 letters:
reassurance
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Word definitions for reassurance in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 the feeling of being reassured, of having confidence restored, of having apprehensions dispelled 2 the act of confirming someone's opinion or impression 3 (context legal dated English) reinsurance
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reassurance \Re`as*sur"ance\ (r[=e]`[.a]*sh[udd]r"ans), n. Assurance or confirmation renewed or repeated. --Prynne. (Law) Same as Reinsurance .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the act of reassuring; restoring someone's confidence
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also re-assurance , 1610s, from reassure + -ance .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB give ▪ Watching the children together gave reassurance that childhood is not all one-upmanship and go-for-the-jugular. ▪ The gift of energy imparted by the young is stabilized and given reassurance by the quiet optimism ...
Usage examples of reassurance.
But Orogastus exerted his magical powers to steady the bridge, and bespoke the fronials in reassurance.
Niallan murmured, touching his shoulder in reassurance as they changed places on the Portal square.
To that roar of criticism and vilification, the Premier de Palikao and Governor Trochu publicly replied only by posting notices of feeble reassurance and pleas for patience.
At the hospital, his X ray had been misread and the three of us were sent home with reassurances, but Reamy and I knew so profoundly that something was wrong with our listless whispering child that we returned.
She had turned and looked down, as she always did when human complexities made her seek reassurance as to the worth of this world, on the shiny mud-flats, blue-veined with the running tides, and green marshes where the redshanks choired.
They had sex more often, for love or for reassurance or to end the occasional snappish quarrels, or because there was nothing constructive to be done.
At this reminder of food Nina glanced behind the bamboo screen into the minute kitchen and, for what must have been the tenth time this evening, counted on her fingers for reassurance: the wine-she needed to buy a book and learn something about wines-a white, to accompany the blackened fish, Portobello mushrooms, a platter of broiled vegetables, salad with sun-dried tomatoes and goat cheese, and for dessert, a tarte tatin, with cappuccino or espresso, whichever Keith might prefer.
Whitetip had leaped easily to the ground from the stone archway over the gates and now was at the place where the trailside fortifications ended, mindspeaking back to all of those whose minds could range him his personal reassurance that the way was clear, with no foemen to contest it.
Jondalar while they were traveling, and she sensed that he needed reassurance.
We are together, and this reassurance was all that kept her from losing her grasp on sanity in that terrifying aeon of unpassing, timeless nothingness.
Daydanda thought ruefully, as she issued rapid commands and reassurances, restoring order out of the sudden panic that the light had caused among the sensitive unpigmented wingless ones.
The child was certainly resourceful, Daydanda thought rue-fully, as she issued rapid commands and reassurances, restoring order out of the sudden panic that the light had caused among the sensitive unpigmented wingless ones.
He might compare the trustworthy goodness of Albus Dumbledore to the infinitely superior goodness of God the Father, stressing that we can find the same kind of reassurance in God, and godly mentors, that Harry finds in his headmaster.
It was obvious that Vita was physically healthy and emotionally sound, and that was an immeasurable reassurance.
She had hoped for reassurance, but Theophilus saw as well as she did what was happening to Atretes.