Confidence
['kɒnfɪd(ə)ns] or ['kɑnfɪdəns]
Definition
(noun.) a secret that is confided or entrusted to another; 'everyone trusted him with their confidences'; 'the priest could not reveal her confidences'.
(noun.) a feeling of trust (in someone or something); 'I have confidence in our team'; 'confidence is always borrowed, never owned'.
(noun.) a trustful relationship; 'he took me into his confidence'; 'he betrayed their trust'.
(noun.) a state of confident hopefulness that events will be favorable; 'public confidence in the economy'.
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Definition
(n.) The act of confiding, trusting, or putting faith in; trust; reliance; belief; -- formerly followed by of, now commonly by in.
(n.) That in which faith is put or reliance had.
(n.) The state of mind characterized by one's reliance on himself, or his circumstances; a feeling of self-sufficiency; such assurance as leads to a feeling of security; self-reliance; -- often with self prefixed.
(n.) Private conversation; (pl.) secrets shared; as, there were confidences between them.
(n.) Trustful; without fear or suspicion; frank; unreserved.
(n.) Having self-reliance; bold; undaunted.
(n.) Having an excess of assurance; bold to a fault; dogmatical; impudent; presumptuous.
(n.) Giving occasion for confidence.
Typist: Willard
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Trust, faith, belief, reliance, dependence.[2]. Boldness, courage, intrepidity, assurance, firmness, self-reliance.
Typist: Maxine
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Trust, faith, belief, self-reliance, assurance, dependence, reliance
ANT:Distrust, mistrust, doubt, misgiving
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Examples
- Then came your dear mother to torture me farther, with all her kindness and confidence. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Take your husband into your confidence. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- There I build my confidence. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- I have told your ladyship that I should be placed in a very disagreeable situation if any complaint was made, and all is in strict confidence. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- You will not exclude me from your confidence if you admit me to your heart? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- It is an advantage to get about in such a case without taking a mercenary into your confidence. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- In strict confidence? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- She seemed to have a certain confidence in Gerald, and to feel a certain motherly mistrust of him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Shame seemed to hold him back; yet he evidently wished to establish a renewal of confidence and affection. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Of this confidence the fullest advantage had been taken. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- All the conditions I insisted on were that he should take me into his confidence and tell me everything. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- But, my dear friend,' argued Mr. Pell, 'it was in confidence. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Why,' replied Mr. Trotter, 'my master and I, being in the confidence of the two servants, will be secreted in the kitchen at ten o'clock. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- This praise and confidence smote Dobbin's heart very keenly. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Finding my apprehensions unfounded, however, and calmed by the deep silence that reigned as evening declined at nightfall, I took confidence. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I may tell you--I trust that I am not indiscreet, but half-confidences are absurd in such a case--that he was not entirely happy at home. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Thereafter she stood a little way apart, but not so far as I should have desired, for I had many little confidences to impart to my long-lost love. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- She had not tried to see Dorset alone: she had positively shrunk from a renewal of his confidences. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- They exchanged confidences, they were intimate in their revelations to the last degree, giving each other at last every secret. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- If we had confidences, they were confidences of the counting-house, not of the heart. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- She must be well brought up, and well guarded from reposing any foolish confidences where they are not deserved. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Vows, love, promises, confidences, gratitude, how queerly they read after a while! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Mr. Tulkinghorn is always the same speechless repository of noble confidences, so oddly out of place and yet so perfectly at home. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- That is the plain truth, whether you like it or not)--if such was not the subject of her august confidences, on what point did they turn? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I feared early instilled prejudice: I wanted to have you safe before hazarding confidences. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- He is a great reservoir of confidences, not to be so tapped. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He is surrounded by a mysterious halo of family confidences, of which he is known to be the silent depository. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- This rendered confidences with Fanny doubly precious to Little Dorrit, and heightened the relief they afforded her. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Does not your heart yearn towards her when she pours into your ear her pure, childlike confidences? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Our confidences in you need not clash. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
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