Definition of confidence

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Confidence (n.) Having an excess of assurance; bold to a fault; dogmatical; impudent; presumptuous.

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Recommend :: Recommend (v. t.) To commend to the favorable notice of another; to commit to another's care, confidence, or acceptance, with favoring representations; to put in a favorable light before any one; to bestow commendation on; as, he recommended resting the mind and exercising the body..
Place :: Place (n.) To set; to fix; to repose; as, to place confidence in a friend..
Credential :: Credential (n.) That which gives a title to credit or confidence.
Retund :: Retund (v. t.) To blunt; to turn, as an edge; figuratively, to cause to be obtuse or dull; as, to retund confidence..
Confidence :: Confidence (n.) Private conversation; (pl.) secrets shared; as, there were confidences between them..
Treason :: Treason (n.) Loosely, the betrayal of any trust or confidence; treachery; perfidy..
Misplace :: Misplace (v. t.) To put in a wrong place; to set or place on an improper or unworthy object; as, he misplaced his confidence..
Trust :: Trust (n.) Assured resting of the mind on the integrity, veracity, justice, friendship, or other sound principle, of another person; confidence; reliance; reliance..
Credit :: Credit (n.) A ground of, or title to, belief or confidence; authority derived from character or reputation..
Distrust :: Distrust (n.) Doubt of sufficiency, reality, or sincerity; want of confidence, faith, or reliance; as, distrust of one's power, authority, will, purposes, schemes, etc..
Hope :: Hope (v. i.) To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good; -- usually followed by in.
Skepticism :: Skepticism (n.) The doctrine that no fact or principle can be certainly known; the tenet that all knowledge is uncertain; Pyrrohonism; universal doubt; the position that no fact or truth, however worthy of confidence, can be established on philosophical grounds; critical investigation or inquiry, as opposed to the positive assumption or assertion of certain principles..
Dogmatize :: Dogmatize (v. i.) To assert positively; to teach magisterially or with bold and undue confidence; to advance with arrogance.
Commend :: Commend (v. t.) To recommend as worthy of confidence or regard; to present as worthy of notice or favorable attention.
Bluff :: Bluff (v. t.) To frighten or deter from accomplishing a purpose by making a show of confidence in one's strength or resources; as, he bluffed me off..
Trust :: Trust (n.) That which is committed or intrusted to one; something received in confidence; charge; deposit.
Assurance :: Assurance (n.) Firmness of mind; undoubting, steadiness; intrepidity; courage; confidence; self-reliance..
Perfidious :: Perfidious (a.) Guilty of perfidy; violating good faith or vows; false to trust or confidence reposed; teacherous; faithless; as, a perfidious friend..
Trustworthy :: Trustworthy (a.) Worthy of trust or confidence; trusty.
Encouragement :: Encouragement (n.) That which serves to incite, support, promote, or advance, as favor, countenance, reward, etc.; incentive; increase of confidence; as, the fine arts find little encouragement among a rude people..
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