† ˈsurance Obs.
Also 4 surrawns, 5 suraunce, -awnce, surans(e, seuerans, sewrawnce, -aunce, 6 sorance.
[a. OF. surance, f. sur sure a., after assurance, of which it may be sometimes merely an aphetic form. Cf. soverance.]
1. A pledge, guarantee; = assurance 1.
| c 1300 Beket 1910 Ich wole assoilli hem in thisse forme, fawe, That hi do surance forto stonde to holi churche lawe. c 1400 Destr. Troy 10238 He said þat his suranse sothely was fals, And done for dissait. 1412–20 Lydg. Chron. Troy iv. 4553 Suraunce & oþe of old made to þe toun. c 1450 Lovelich Merlin 2212 He mad hem to swere, vppon here Sewraunce, to-forn him there, that be ony weye they scholden me sle. 1532 Tindale Expos. Matt. v–vii. vi. 68 b, To geve vs yet more sensible and surer sacramentes and suraunces of his goodnes. a 1557 Diurn. Occurr. (Bannatyne Cl.) 40 The laird of Langtoun tane in surance for suffering of the Inglismen. 1588 Shakes. Tit. A. v. ii. 46 Now giue some surance that thou art Reuenge. |
2. The insuring of property, etc.; = assurance 5, insurance 4.
| 1547 Insurance Policy in R. G. Marsden Sel. Pleas Crt. Admir. (1897) II. 48 In full payment of this sorance a bove sayd. c 1550 Ibid., The beste made..byll of surance. |
3. Security, safety; = assurance 7.
| 1426 Lydg. De Guil. Pilgr. 23359 And where the gate is kept well,..that vycis may ha none entrie, that place stant in suerte,..and ther is suraunce & eke trust. c 1470 Harding Chron. xc. xv. (MS. Arch. Seld. B. 10) lf. 70 Thus wedde he hir at yorke in al suraunce. a 1475 Ashby Active Policy 549 Gentilmen shuld nat yeve clothyng But to their howshold meyne, for surance That no man be their power excedyng. 1559 Mirr. Mag., K. James Murdered xv, He counsayled me for surance of my state. 1603 J. Davies Microcosmos 155 Put into his hand the awfull Sword Of Iustice; so, the good shall bee assur'd,..Sith Iustice goodmens surance doth inlarge. |
4. Certitude, confidence; = assurance 8.
| c 1450 Lovelich Grail xv. 80 Of that Surawnce Am I. |