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self-ˈconfidence
[self- 3 a.]
Confidence in oneself; often in an unfavourable sense, arrogant or impudent reliance on one's own powers.
1653Gauden Hieraspistes 69 A matter..of self-confidence and intollerable boastings. 1691Hartcliffe Virtues 405 Self-confidence and Self-Conceit render Men Fools. 1779Johnson L. P., Pope (1868) 375 Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. 1825Scott Talism. i, The calm self-confidence belonging to the victor in many contests. 1849Alison Hist. Eur. II. vii. 135 Self-confidence, or, in plainer language, impudence, was the great secret of his success. 1875Gladstone Glean. (1879) VI. 120 Both rather abounded in self-confidence.
So self-ˈconfident (hence -ˈconfidently adv., Webster, 1847–54).
a1617P. Baynes Christian Lett. (1620) sig. C5, O Lord..thou has promised that thou wilt circumcise our selfe-confident hearts, so that we shal haue no trust in the flesh, but haue all our reioycing in thee. 1837Whewell Hist. Induct. Sci. III. 310 Shallow and self-confident persons. 1921E. O'Neill Diff'rent 1, in Emperor Jones 221 Her face..attracts the eye by a certain boldly-appealing vitality of self-confident youth. 1951in M. McLuhan Mech. Bride (1967) 72/1 It's a self-confident look. |