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 Assumption (Feast of the).Astag’oras (in Jerusalem Delivered). 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Assurance.
 
Audacity, brazen self-confidence. “His assurance is quite unbearable.”   1
   To make assurance double sure. To make security doubly secure.   2
       
“But yet I’ll make assurance double sure,
And take a bond of fate.”
       
Shakespeare: Macbeth, iv. 1.
 


 Assumption (Feast of the).Astag’oras (in Jerusalem Delivered). 

 
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