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REASSURED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having confidence restored; freed from anxiety
Example:
reassured by her praise he pressed on
Classified under:
Similar:
confident (having or marked by confidence or assurance)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb reassure
Context examples:
But he reassured himself with a glance down at his host—a big man himself but dwarfed by the propinquity of the giant.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Then came the long sniff, as White Fang reassured himself that his god was still inside and had not yet taken himself off in mysterious and solitary flight.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Voices were heard faintly halloaing in the direction of the two gigs; and though this reassured us for Joyce and Hunter, who were well to the eastward, it warned our party to be off.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
But the fainter glimmering of the stars, and the pale light in the sky where the day was coming, reassured me: and my eyes being very heavy, I lay down again and slept—though with a knowledge in my sleep that it was cold—until the warm beams of the sun, and the ringing of the getting-up bell at Salem House, awoke me.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
He was growing more and more excited, and this alarmed me for my father, who was very low that day and needed quiet; besides, I was reassured by the doctor's words, now quoted to me, and rather offended by the offer of a bribe.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
She was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
