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Word Meanings - SELF-CONFIDENCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The quality or state of being self-confident; self-reliance. A feeling of self-confidence which supported and sustained him. Beaconsfield.

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  • CONVICTION
    A judgment of condemnation entered by a court having jurisdiction; the act or process of finding guilty, or the state of being found guilty of any crime by a legal tribunal. Conviction may accrue two ways. Blackstone. 3. The act of convincing of
  • SELF-ASSERTION
    The act of asserting one's self, or one's own rights or claims; the quality of being self-asserting.
  • SELF-CONFIDENCE
    The quality or state of being self-confident; self-reliance. A feeling of self-confidence which supported and sustained him. Beaconsfield.
  • PRESUMPTION
    1. The act of presuming, or believing upon probable evidence; the act of assuming or taking for granted; belief upon incomplete proof. 2. Ground for presuming; evidence probable, but not conclusive; strong probability; reasonable supposition; as,
  • CERTAINTY
    Clearness; freedom from ambiguity; lucidity. Of a certainty, certainly. (more info) 1. The quality, state, or condition, of being certain. The certainty of punishment is the truest security against crimes. Fisher Ames. 2. A fact or truth
  • BOLDNESS
    The state or quality of being bold. Syn. -- Courage; bravery; intrepidity; dauntlessness; hardihood; assurance.
  • ASSUMPTION
    The minor or second proposition in a categorical syllogism. 5. The taking of a person up into heaven. Hence: (Rom. Cath. & Greek Churches) (more info) 1. The act of assuming, or taking to or upon one's self; the act of taking up or adopting. The
  • IMPUDENCE
    The quality of being impudent; assurance, accompanied with a disregard of the presence or opinions of others; shamelessness; forwardness; want of modesty. Clear truths that their own evidence forces us to admit, or common experience makes
  • ARROGANCE
    The act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner; that species of pride which consists in exorbitant claims of rank, dignity, estimation, or power, or which exalts the worth or importance of the person to an undue
  • EFFRONTERY
    Impudence or boldness in confronting or in transgressing the bounds of duty or decorum; insulting presumptuousness; shameless boldness; barefaced assurance. Corruption lost nothing of its effrontery. Bancroft. Syn. -- Impudence; sauciness.
  • UNCERTAINTY
    1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange.
  • SELF-CONVICTION
    The act of convicting one's self, or the state of being self- convicted.
  • INCERTAINTY
    Uncertainty. Shak.

 

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