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Audacity, brazen self-confidence. “His assurance is quite unbearable.”
To make assurance double sure. To make security doubly secure.
“But yet Iʹll make assurance double sure,
And take a bond of fate.”
Shakespeare: Macbeth, iv. 1.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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