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Confidence

noun

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"

A feeling of trust (in someone or something). "Confidence is always borrowed, never owned" Antonym: diffidence.

A state of confident hopefulness that events will be favorable.

A trustful relationship. Synonym: trust. "He betrayed their trust"

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

... not ask you for your confidence," returned Prince Florizel. "But do not forget that Colonel Geraldine's recommendation is an unfailing passport; and that I am not only willing, but possibly more able than many others, to ...

— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 4 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson

... "good luck" in cooking. There is a cause for every failure. The cause of the failure should be found and the remedy ascertained. The same mistake should never be made a second time. Progress is sure to result from such an attitude towards work. Moreover, confidence in the result of one's work is gained. This is of incalculable value, besides being a great ...

— School and Home Cooking • Carlotta C. Greer

... The confidence of an enlightened community has assigned to you, as guardians of the dearest interests of society, an elevated and highly responsible rank among those who labor to promote the great cause of human happiness. Your influence in ...

— A Dissertation on the Medical Properties and Injurious Effects of the Habitual Use of Tobacco • A. McAllister

... must, I shall do so with pleasure," replied Catherine with her best company manners; and the Reverend Mr. Hazard, having been taken into Esther's confidence on the subject, decided, after reflection, that Miss Brooke's moral nature would not be hurt by reading Dickens under such circumstances; so the next day Catherine was plunged into a new world of imagination which ...

— Esther • Henry Adams

... in itself." Another example—the confusion in the beginning of Book II.—we have already discussed (see Chapter IV.), and do not think that any explanation is needed, when we understand that Agamemnon, once wide-awake, had no confidence in his dream. However, Mr. Jevons thinks that rhapsodists, anxious to recite straight on from the dream to the battle, added II. 35-41, "the only lines which represent Agamemnon as believing confidently in his dream." We have argued that he only believed ...

— Homer and His Age • Andrew Lang

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