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Confidence   /kˈɑnfədəns/   Listen
Confidence

noun
1.
Freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities.  Synonyms: assurance, authority, self-assurance, self-confidence, sureness.  "After that failure he lost his confidence" , "She spoke with authority"
2.
A feeling of trust (in someone or something).  "Confidence is always borrowed, never owned"
3.
A state of confident hopefulness that events will be favorable.
4.
A trustful relationship.  Synonym: trust.  "He betrayed their trust"
5.
A secret that is confided or entrusted to another.  "The priest could not reveal her confidences"



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"Confidence" Quotes from Famous Books



... doubt that they will be able to bring matters into a clearer light, to advise your Majesty, and to effect great reforms. At the same time the Indians will conduct their suits with greater tranquillity, security, and confidence, and at less cost. This is not much to ask, since your Majesty is pleased to entrust special matters and the inspection of a viceroy of Nueva Espana to a bishop; and the same should be done with those which are of so much greater importance, and concern so greatly the glory and service of ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume X, 1597-1599 • E. H. Blair
... continued in use for five-and-forty years. Nothing was more natural than that when she died there should come with the accession of a new dynasty a demand for fresh revision. King James, who was not afflicted with any want of confidence in his own judgment, invited certain representatives of the disaffected party to meet, under his presidency, the Churchmen in council with a view to the settlement of differences. The Puritans had been gaining in strength during Elizabeth's ...
— A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer • William Reed Huntington
... leave the railroad line and cross country for the Overland Stage trail that skirted the southern edge of the worse desert before us. But Captain Hyrum was of different mind. With faith in the Lord and bull confidence in himself he had resolved to keep straight on by the teamster road which through league after league ever extended fed supplies to the advance ...
— Desert Dust • Edwin L. Sabin
... sanctuary there was no longer that depression, that despair of poor wretches who dragged themselves to the nearest church and sat down in the shade. The pilgrims to Notre Dame des Victoires brought a surer confidence, and that faith softened their sorrows, whose bitterness was dissipated in the explosions of hope, the stammering adoration, which spouted up all around. There were two currents in that refuge, that of people who asked for favours, and that of those who, having gained them, were ...
— En Route • J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans
... a true brother, when we hear him blurting out his big words, followed so soon by such a contradiction in deeds. He is the same man all through his story, always ready to push himself into dangers, always full of rash confidence, which passes at once into abject fear when the dangers which he ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture - St. Mark • Alexander Maclaren


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