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self-aˈssurance
[self- 1 d.]
Feeling of security as to oneself; self-confidence.
1594Spenser Amoretti lix, Thrise happie she! that is so well assured Unto her selfe [etc.]... Such selfe-assurance need not feare the spight Of grudging foes. 180.Foster Ess. iii. ii. (1806) II. 22 The flattering self-assurance simply of a life of singular felicity. 1818Scott Rob Roy xii, Lightness, gallantry, and something approaching to well-bred self-assurance. 1891T. Hardy Tess vi, Going about her business with some self-assurance in the thought [etc.].
So self-aˈssured a., self-confident.
1711G. Hickes Two Treat. Chr. Priesth. (1847) II. 3 He is so very self-assured as to affirm that [etc.]. 1880McCarthy Own Times xlviii. IV. 12 His style was far too self assured.
Add: self-aˈssuredness n.
1961in Webster. 1977R. V. Allen in Q. Jrnl. Libr. of Congress July 220/1 An..amusing contrast was evidenced between his grandiose but ultimately fruitful projects and the self-assuredness of the duke, who did exactly as he bloody well pleased. 1989Boston Globe 14 Sept. 25/2 These people..recall vividly Dukakis' clipped phrases and self-assuredness in meetings. |