Emily Dickinson Lexicon

RE-AS-SURE, v.t. [reasshu're; re and assure; Fr. rassurer.]

1. To restore courage to; to free from fear or terror. They rose with fear, / Till dauntless Pallas reassur'd the rest. – Dryden.
2. To insure a second time against loss, or rather to insure by another what one has already insured; to insure against loss that may be incurred by taking a risk.