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present participle and gerund of reassure examples
comparative more reassuring, superlative most reassuring
That reassures; causing comfort or confidence. quotations examples
The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue. […].
1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 17, in The China Governess
It was reassuring to be back in the regent's warm embrace.
1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus, published 2010, page 95
plural reassurings
reassurance quotations examples
Alfred trembled, and felt a great sinking inside, but he did what he could to conceal his misery, and to respond with some show of heart to the Major's kindly pettings and reassurings.
1900, Mark Twain, The Belated Russian Passport