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Definition of Reassuring
1. Adjective. Restoring confidence and relieving anxiety. "A very reassuring remark"
Similar to: Assuasive, Soothing, Assuring, Comforting, Consolatory, Consoling
Also: Encouraging
Antonyms: Unreassuring
Definition of Reassuring
1. Verb. (present participle of reassure) ¹
2. Adjective. That reassures; causing comfort or confidence. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Reassuring
1. reassure [v] - See also: reassure
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reassuring
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Literary usage of Reassuring
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Surveys, Historic and Economic by William James Ashley (1900)
"Already, however, the cry of alarm was beginning to call forth reassuring argument.
An anonymous pamphlet appeared in 1677, thus entitled : ' England's ..."
2. The Court of the Tuileries from the Restoration to the Flight of Louis Philippe by Catherine Charlotte Jackson (1897)
"A Reassuring Document. — The Triumphant Army. — Patriotic Sentiments. — The
Enemy's Artillery. — Resuming the White Cockade. — Prussian Reprisals. ..."
3. The Press and Politics in Japan: A Study of the Relation Between the by Kisaburō Kawabé (1921)
"... a senate and a supreme court as reassuring measures; press-law revision and
strict censorship; editorials of radical ideas; growth of public discussion; ..."
4. The Origins of the War by Raymond Poincaré (1921)
"9 2 Our Consul-General at Pest, M. de Fontenay, gave me these not very reassuring
details : Austria is dwelling on the partition of Turkey. ..."
5. The Balance Sheet of Sovietism by Boris Brasol (1922)
"... envying the scientific laurels of his Cheka companions, has devoted much of
his precious time to writing a volume which bears the reassuring title, ..."
6. Ulster as it is: Or, Twenty-eight Years' Experience as an Irish Editor by Thomas Macknight (1896)
"... Reassuring Letter—His Attitude—Meeting of Parliament— Defeat of the Government.
I NOW feel, though with great reluctance, compelled to say something of ..."
7. The International Military Digest Annual by Cornélis De Witt Willcox (1917)
"This may or may not be so, but it is reassuring. Everything for the cannon—nothing
for the others. "The artillery does the whole task, and the infantry ..."
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