confidencen.

Brit.

/ˈkɒnfᵻd(ə)ns/, U.S.

/ˈkɑnfəd(ə)ns/

Forms: Also Middle English -ens.

Etymology: < Latin confīdentia, noun of quality or state < confīdent-em : see confident adj. and n. and -ence suffix. Compare French confidence (14th cent. in Oresme), but some of the senses are not found in French (where they are expressed by confiance).

1. The mental attitude of trusting in or relying on a person or thing; firm trust, reliance, faith. Const. in (†to, on, upon).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > belief > belief, trust, confidence > [noun]

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credulity?a1439

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confidency1606

confidingness1682

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > hope > confident hope, trust > [noun]

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confidencec1430

affiancec1460

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confidency1606

securitya1620

c1430 J. Lydgate in Pol. Rel. & L. Poems 47 Alle verteu..Made stable in god by gostly confidence.

1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos xxv. 93 The whiche goddes, hauynge confydence in trustynge his sayd promysse.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms cxvii. 9 It is better to trust in the Lorde, then to put eny confidence in man.

1557 T. North tr. A. de Guevara Diall Princes f. 133^v/2 The sonne..will not haue to his father any great confidence.

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II ii. iv. 6 The King reposeth all his confidence in thee.

1649 E. Reynolds Israels Prayer (new ed.) iv. 48 Confidence..in foraigne ayde.

1774 O. Goldsmith Grecian Hist. I. viii. 310 The king would place more confidence in the engagements of the nobility than upon those of the..capricious multitude.

1837 Baroness Bunsen in A. J. C. Hare Life & Lett. Baroness Bunsen (1879) I. x. 448 He..never abused the most implicit confidence.

a. The feeling sure or certain of a fact or issue; assurance, certitude; assured expectation.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > absence of doubt, confidence > [noun]

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sickerness?c1225

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boldness1330

certaintya1340

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surancea1450

affiancec1460

certitude?a1475

resting?a1475

security1535

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confidence1555

assuredness1561

resolution1590

plerophory1598

reliance1606

undoubtfulness1619

positiveness1711

positivity1741

decidedness1800

positivism1842

undoubtingness1857

inexpugnability1864

1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde iii. iii. f. 104 They..with no lesse confydence licke their lippes secreately in hope of their praye.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) i. ii. 414 He thinkes, nay with all confidence he sweares, As he had seen't.

1692 W. Temple Ess. Heroick Virtue vi, in Miscellanea: 2nd Pt. (ed. 3) 294 The very confidence of Victory..makes Armies Victorious.

1790 R. Beatson Naval & Mil. Mem. I. 209 Wrapped up in a vain confidence of his own abilities.

1872 E. A. Freeman Hist. Ess. (ed. 3) 12 This story..I affirm with less confidence.

†b. Const. to do. Obsolete.

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1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 343 Humbl'd by such rebuke, so farr beneath His confidence to equal God in power.

†c. in, on, upon confidence (of, that, to do).

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a1600 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie (1648) vi. 71 Not in confidence to redeeme..sinne, but as tokens of meek submission.

1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xvii. 88 Men agree to submit to some Man on confidence to be protected by him.

1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 51 In confidence thereof, the Duke left him.

a. Assurance, boldness, fearlessness, arising from reliance (on oneself, on circumstances, on divine support, etc.).

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the mind > emotion > courage > bravery or boldness > [noun]

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couragea1382

audacity1432

fierceness1490

confidence1526

spritec1540

gallantness1555

braverya1586

braveness1589

confidency1600

lion-heart1667

bravity1689

outdaciousness1778

nads1976

the mind > emotion > courage > confidence > [noun]

confidence1526

confidentness1727

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection i. sig. Fi^v By the holy loue of charite we may haue great confidence & meke boldnesse.

1526 Bible (Tyndale) Acts xxviii. 31 Preachyng the kyngdome of God..with all confidence [so 1611; 1881 Rev. boldness].

a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) ii. ii. 49 Alas my Lord, Your wisedome is consum'd in confidence: Do not go forth to day: Call it my feare.

1752 S. Johnson Rambler No. 194. ⁋3 He..was able to address those whom he never saw before with ease and confidence.

1832 W. Irving Alhambra 367 At first she touched her lute with a faltering hand, but gathering confidence and animation as she proceeded, drew forth..soft aerial harmony.

b. Const. to have confidence to do (anything).

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1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Chron. xviii. D Therfore hath thy seruaunt founde (confydence) to make his prayer before the.

1705 G. Stanhope Paraphr. III. 436 Who can have the confidence to think himself excused, toward those of a differing Judgement.

1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. iv. v. 167 Conflans had no longer confidence to meet the English in the field.

a. In a bad sense: Assurance based on insufficient or improper grounds; excess of assurance, overboldness, hardihood, presumption, impudence.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pride > overweening or presumption > [noun]

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overweena1300

jollitya1340

overweening1340

overhopec1390

surfeitryc1425

presumptuousnessa1450

outrecuidance?c1450

sauciness1534

presumptiousness1550

presume1590

confidence1597

assuming1602

self-assumption1609

overweeningness1621

self-assuming1644

assumingnessa1832

assumptiousness1870

hubris1884

hybris1920

1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. Ded. sig. A2^v Their confidence for the most part riseth from too much credit giuen to their owne wits.

1656 Jer. Taylor in Evelyn's Mem. (1857) III. 72 The confidence of men, who of themselves are apt enough to hide their vices in irreligion.

1667 S. Pepys Diary 15 Oct. (1974) VIII. 481 My wife begin to complain to me of Willetts confidence in sitting cheek by jowl by us.

1694 R. Molesworth Acct. Denmark in 1692 (ed. 3) C iij b The French Ambassador had the Confidence to tear out of the Book of Mottos in the Kings Library, this Verse, which Mr. Sydney..had written in it.

1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 502. ⁋2 The intolerable Folly and Confidence of Players putting in Words of their own.

b. As an appellation: = Confident one.

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1741 S. Richardson Pamela III. xxii. 128 Do I want you, Confidence! Yes, I do. Where have you been these two Hours, and never came near me?

5. An object or ground of trust; ‘that which gives confidence, boldness, or security’ (Johnson).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > hope > confident hope, trust > [noun] > object of trust

sheet-anchor1524

confidence1535

staya1542

mainstay1604

reposure1682

dependence1753

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Job xxxi. 24 Or, haue I sayde to the fynest golde of all: thou art my confidence?

1611 Bible (King James) Prov. iii. 26 For the Lord shalbe thy confidence .

6. The confiding of private or secret matters to another; the relation of intimacy or trust between persons so confiding; confidential intimacy.In the first three quots. some take confidence as a humorous blunder for conference.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pride > excessive self-confidence > [noun]

overtrust?c1225

self-witc1425

self-trust1526

self-wisdom1571

self-assurance1595

confidence1599

self-confidence1604

self-security1606

self-sufficiencya1617

sufficiency1638

self-wittedness1647

self-trusting1658

self-poise1774

suffisance1781

cock-surety1819

disinvolturac1847

cocksureness1878

cocksureism1889

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > privacy > [noun] > private matter or business > confiding of

confidence1599

confidency1868

the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > [noun] > intimacy > condition of being entrusted with secrets > confiding of private or secret matters

confidence1599

confidency1868

1599 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet ii. iii. 118 I desire some confidence with you.

1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing iii. v. 2 I would haue some confidence with you.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) i. iv. 155 I will tell your Worship more of the Wart, the next time we haue confidence .

1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII i. ii. 168 With demure Confidence, This pausingly ensu'de.

1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena 172 He telling [it] in confidence to a friend of his.

1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 52. ⁋1 No one was in Confidence with her in carrying on this Treaty but the matchless Virgulta.

1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World i. 72 To see, if he could pitch upon one Man more particular than the rest, to enter into some Confidence with.

1741 C. Middleton Hist. Life Cicero I. iv. 244 A citizen who lived afterwards in great confidence with Caesar.

1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth iii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. II. 96 I have possessed two or three tattling fools, in deep confidence, that [etc.].

1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues II. 435 Speaking in confidence, for I should not like to have my words repeated.

7. A confidential communication.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > privacy > [noun] > private matter or business

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chamber counsela1616

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confidence1748

1748 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 27 Sept. (1932) (modernized text) IV. 1235 He will..be well informed of all that passes..by the confidences made him.

1860 G. A. Sala Lady Chesterfield's Lett. Pref. 3 I intended these Letters to be the confidences and counsels of a garrulous old woman of the world.

1870 A. Helps Secrecy in Ess. 54 Before you make any confidence, you should consider whether the thing you wish to confide is of weight enough to be a secret.

†8. Trustworthiness, as a personal quality. a person of confidence: one entrusted with matters of importance or secrecy, a confidential agent. Cf. confident adj. 6.

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society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > faithfulness or trustworthiness > [noun]

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trueness?c1225

soothnessc1275

faithc1300

good faithc1300

trustc1300

trueheadc1325

traistnessa1340

truthheada1400

faithfulnessc1400

loyaltyc1400

tristiness1408

trustinessc1450

confiance1490

fealty?1515

surety?c1535

loyalness1592

troth-keeping1605

true-heartedness1608

confidence1642

trustworthiness1662

responsibleness1706

dependence1752

reliability1810

trustihood1823

faithworthiness1828

reliableness1841

dependableness1860

dependability1901

the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > care, protection, or charge > [noun] > entrusting to another's care or keeping > one to whom a thing is entrusted

repository1592

depositor1604

depositary1608

depository1656

depositee1676

reposure1682

consignatarya1685

custodee1739

a person of confidence1777

repositary1866

1642 Bp. J. Taylor Of Sacred Order Episcopacy (1647) 366 Bishops and Priests were men of great ability and surest confidence for determinations of justice.

1777 W. Robertson Hist. Amer. (1783) II. 223 He sent a person of confidence to the Havana, with..farther orders.

1791 Gentleman's Mag. 61 ii. 864 If your Lordship pleases, I will nominate a person of confidence.

1800 tr. M. de Cervantes Force of Blood 161 She sent a man of confidence to the priest.

†9.

a. Law. = trust n. Obsolete.

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society > law > transfer of property > settlement of property > [noun] > putting property into trust > trust reposed in person holding property

trust1415

confidence1528

use1535

1528–30 tr. T. Littleton Tenures (new ed.) f. xxxviiii^v Suche feoffement is made vpon confydence to performe the wyll of the feoffoure.

1536 Act 27 Hen. VIII c. 10 Feoffments, fines, recoveries, and other like assurances to uses, confidences, and trusts.—Seised..of..lands..to the use, confidence, or trust of any other person or persons, or of any body politick.

1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. 271 If a man enfeoffe other men of his land vpon confidence, and to the intent to performe his last will.

1767 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (new ed.) II. 332.

1848 J. J. S. Wharton Law Lexicon 669/2 All matters of trust and confidence are exclusively cognizable in equity.

b. Christian Church. (See quot. 1872.)

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1872 W. H. Jervis Gallican Church I. v. 212 (note) A ‘confidence’ is a contract by which an ecclesiastic receives a benefice on condition of paying the emoluments, or a part of them, to a third person; or covenants to resign the preferment at a specified time.

10. confidence trick (game, etc.): a method of professional swindling, in which the victim is induced to hand over money or other valuables as a token of ‘confidence’ in the sharper. confidence man: one who practises this trick; a professional swindler of respectable appearance and address. Originally U.S.

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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > [noun] > confidence trick

confidence trick (game, etc.)1849

con1889

the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > defrauder or swindler > [noun] > confidence trickster

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confidence man1849

con artist1878

con man1889

T.B.1912

payoff man1927

pay-off1928

samfie1929

1849 Daily Picayune (New Orleans) 21 June 1/4 ‘Well, then,’ continues the ‘confidence man’, ‘just lend me your watch till to-morrow.’

1856 Spirit of Age (Sacramento, Calif.) 14 Mar. 4/1 G. W. Meylert's now about town, playing the confidence game and making grand attempts at swindling.

1866 E. A. Pollard Southern Hist. War II. xxv. 477 President Davis..was surrounded by adventurers and ‘confidence-men’.

1867 Congr. Globe 26 Nov. 801/2 A man playing a ‘confidence game’ of the meanest description.

1873 Congr. Globe 18 Jan. 692/1 Like a ‘confidence-man’ as he is, endeavouring to hoist himself into respectability.

1884 Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 22 Nov. 6/5 For some weeks the newspapers here have waged a war of extermination against gamblers, confidence men, thieves and others of like ilk.

1884 Spectator 9 Feb. 182/2 We know of no social puzzle equal in perplexity to the continual success of the Confidence Trick.

1886 Cent. Mag. Feb. 512/2 [They are] Confidence sharps, young feller.

1887 W. S. Gilbert Ruddigore ii. 37 There's confidence tricking, bad coin, pocket-picking, And several other disgraces.

1887 Harper's Mag. Mar. 514/1 Bertha Heymann, ‘Queen of the confidence women’.

1909 Daily Chron. 13 Nov. 4/4 Confidence-tricksters would rather meet a fly-flat than the most learned of Oxford dons; and that is also why the smart Yankee is their most common victim.

1911 N.Y. Evening Post 12 Sept. 1 S. A. Potter was arrested to-day on a charge of operating a confidence game.

1933 C. Day Lewis Magnetic Mountain 47 The Insurance Agent, the Vicar, Hard Cheese the Confidence-Tricker.

1951 E. E. Evans-Pritchard Social Anthropol. vi. 122 After giving advice to travellers..to avoid gambling and confidence tricksters.

1955 Sci. Amer. Apr. 102/3 How you would behave toward two groups, one of whom had been told beforehand that you were outgoing, friendly and warm, while the other had been informed that you were surly, hostile and suspicious. Confidence men are well aware of this feedback effect of the milieu.

1959 J. Braine Vodi v. 75 For a second he had an intimation that already on its way was some event likely to make him permanently happy, then decided not to be taken in by the confidence trick.

11. Used attributively, esp. in Statistics, as confidence coefficient n. (or confidence level) the particular probability used in defining a confidence interval, representing the likelihood that the interval will contain the parameter. confidence interval n. a range of values so defined that there is a specified probability that the value of a parameter of a population lies within it. confidence limit n. either of the two extreme values of a confidence interval.

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the world > relative properties > number > probability or statistics > [noun] > confidence interval

confidence interval1934

the world > relative properties > number > probability or statistics > [noun] > confidence interval > extreme value of

confidence limit1934

level of confidence or significance1950

the world > relative properties > number > probability or statistics > [noun] > confidence interval > probability used in defining

confidence coefficient1934

1934 J. Neyman in Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 97 562 The form of this solution consists in determining certain intervals, which I propose to call the confidence intervals.., in which we may assume are contained the values of the estimated characters of the population, the probability of an error in a statement of this sort being equal to or less than 1—ε, where ε is any number 0<ε<1, chosen in advance. The number ε I call the confidence cœfficient.

1939 A. E. Treloar Elements Statist. Reasoning x. 133 Since ±3σ in a normal distribution defines a central probability value of 99·973 per cent, the points x̄±3σx̄ may be referred to as the 99·973 per cent confidence limits.

1968 Brit. Med. Bull. 24 234/1 The proportion of cases misdiagnosed in this way give approximately unbiased estimates of the required probabilities,..and confidence intervals can be found.

Compounds

confidence-inspiring adj.

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1891 W. James Let. 23 Aug. in R. B. Perry Thought & Char. W. James (1935) I. 419 Our children grow lovelier every year and more confidence-inspiring.

1948 B. G. M. Sundkler Bantu Prophets S. Afr. v. 128 It is instructive to study the yearly balance sheets of this Church..arranged in a confidence-inspiring manner.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	confidence
释义	confidencen. Brit. /ˈkɒnfᵻd(ə)ns/, U.S. /ˈkɑnfəd(ə)ns/ Forms: Also Middle English -ens. Etymology: < Latin confīdentia, noun of quality or state < confīdent-em : see confident adj. and n. and -ence suffix. Compare French confidence (14th cent. in Oresme), but some of the senses are not found in French (where they are expressed by confiance). 1. The mental attitude of trusting in or relying on a person or thing; firm trust, reliance, faith. Const. in (†to, on, upon). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > belief, trust, confidence > [noun] ylevec888 levec950 hopec1000 trothc1175 trusta1200 trutha1200 tristc1200 beliefa1225 tresta1300 traistinga1340 traistnessa1340 fiance1340 affiancec1350 affyc1380 tristening1382 credencea1393 faitha1393 levenessc1400 confidencec1430 credulity?a1439 trustingc1450 confiance1490 credit1533 fiduce1582 confidency1606 confidingness1682 the mind > mental capacity > expectation > hope > confident hope, trust > [noun] to-hopec888 tristc1200 trusta1398 confidencec1430 affiancec1460 confiance1490 confidency1606 securitya1620 c1430 J. Lydgate in Pol. Rel. & L. Poems 47 Alle verteu..Made stable in god by gostly confidence. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos xxv. 93 The whiche goddes, hauynge confydence in trustynge his sayd promysse. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms cxvii. 9 It is better to trust in the Lorde, then to put eny confidence in man. 1557 T. North tr. A. de Guevara Diall Princes f. 133^v/2 The sonne..will not haue to his father any great confidence. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II ii. iv. 6 The King reposeth all his confidence in thee. View more context for this quotation 1649 E. Reynolds Israels Prayer (new ed.) iv. 48 Confidence..in foraigne ayde. 1774 O. Goldsmith Grecian Hist. I. viii. 310 The king would place more confidence in the engagements of the nobility than upon those of the..capricious multitude. 1837 Baroness Bunsen in A. J. C. Hare Life & Lett. Baroness Bunsen (1879) I. x. 448 He..never abused the most implicit confidence. 2. a. The feeling sure or certain of a fact or issue; assurance, certitude; assured expectation. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > absence of doubt, confidence > [noun] sickerlaika1225 sickerness?c1225 sickerheadc1250 boldness1330 certaintya1340 traistc1340 assurancec1374 certain138. sureness1419 surancea1450 affiancec1460 certitude?a1475 resting?a1475 security1535 firmancec1540 confidence1555 assuredness1561 resolution1590 plerophory1598 reliance1606 undoubtfulness1619 positiveness1711 positivity1741 decidedness1800 positivism1842 undoubtingness1857 inexpugnability1864 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde iii. iii. f. 104 They..with no lesse confydence licke their lippes secreately in hope of their praye. a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) i. ii. 414 He thinkes, nay with all confidence he sweares, As he had seen't. View more context for this quotation 1692 W. Temple Ess. Heroick Virtue vi, in Miscellanea: 2nd Pt. (ed. 3) 294 The very confidence of Victory..makes Armies Victorious. 1790 R. Beatson Naval & Mil. Mem. I. 209 Wrapped up in a vain confidence of his own abilities. 1872 E. A. Freeman Hist. Ess. (ed. 3) 12 This story..I affirm with less confidence. †b. Const. to do. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 343 Humbl'd by such rebuke, so farr beneath His confidence to equal God in power. View more context for this quotation †c. in, on, upon confidence (of, that, to do). ΚΠ a1600 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie (1648) vi. 71 Not in confidence to redeeme..sinne, but as tokens of meek submission. 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xvii. 88 Men agree to submit to some Man on confidence to be protected by him. 1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 51 In confidence thereof, the Duke left him. 3. a. Assurance, boldness, fearlessness, arising from reliance (on oneself, on circumstances, on divine support, etc.). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > courage > bravery or boldness > [noun] boldshipc1275 couragea1382 audacity1432 fierceness1490 confidence1526 spritec1540 gallantness1555 braverya1586 braveness1589 confidency1600 lion-heart1667 bravity1689 outdaciousness1778 nads1976 the mind > emotion > courage > confidence > [noun] confidence1526 confidentness1727 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection i. sig. Fi^v By the holy loue of charite we may haue great confidence & meke boldnesse. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Acts xxviii. 31 Preachyng the kyngdome of God..with all confidence [so 1611; 1881 Rev. boldness]. a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) ii. ii. 49 Alas my Lord, Your wisedome is consum'd in confidence: Do not go forth to day: Call it my feare. View more context for this quotation 1752 S. Johnson Rambler No. 194. ⁋3 He..was able to address those whom he never saw before with ease and confidence. 1832 W. Irving Alhambra 367 At first she touched her lute with a faltering hand, but gathering confidence and animation as she proceeded, drew forth..soft aerial harmony. b. Const. to have confidence to do (anything). ΚΠ 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Chron. xviii. D Therfore hath thy seruaunt founde (confydence) to make his prayer before the. 1705 G. Stanhope Paraphr. III. 436 Who can have the confidence to think himself excused, toward those of a differing Judgement. 1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. iv. v. 167 Conflans had no longer confidence to meet the English in the field. 4. a. In a bad sense: Assurance based on insufficient or improper grounds; excess of assurance, overboldness, hardihood, presumption, impudence. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > overweening or presumption > [noun] presumptiona1250 overweena1300 jollitya1340 overweening1340 overhopec1390 surfeitryc1425 presumptuousnessa1450 outrecuidance?c1450 sauciness1534 presumptiousness1550 presume1590 confidence1597 assuming1602 self-assumption1609 overweeningness1621 self-assuming1644 assumingnessa1832 assumptiousness1870 hubris1884 hybris1920 1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. Ded. sig. A2^v Their confidence for the most part riseth from too much credit giuen to their owne wits. 1656 Jer. Taylor in Evelyn's Mem. (1857) III. 72 The confidence of men, who of themselves are apt enough to hide their vices in irreligion. 1667 S. Pepys Diary 15 Oct. (1974) VIII. 481 My wife begin to complain to me of Willetts confidence in sitting cheek by jowl by us. 1694 R. Molesworth Acct. Denmark in 1692 (ed. 3) C iij b The French Ambassador had the Confidence to tear out of the Book of Mottos in the Kings Library, this Verse, which Mr. Sydney..had written in it. 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 502. ⁋2 The intolerable Folly and Confidence of Players putting in Words of their own. b. As an appellation: = Confident one. ΚΠ 1741 S. Richardson Pamela III. xxii. 128 Do I want you, Confidence! Yes, I do. Where have you been these two Hours, and never came near me? 5. An object or ground of trust; ‘that which gives confidence, boldness, or security’ (Johnson). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > hope > confident hope, trust > [noun] > object of trust sheet-anchor1524 confidence1535 staya1542 mainstay1604 reposure1682 dependence1753 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Job xxxi. 24 Or, haue I sayde to the fynest golde of all: thou art my confidence? 1611 Bible (King James) Prov. iii. 26 For the Lord shalbe thy confidence . View more context for this quotation 6. The confiding of private or secret matters to another; the relation of intimacy or trust between persons so confiding; confidential intimacy.In the first three quots. some take confidence as a humorous blunder for conference. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > excessive self-confidence > [noun] overtrust?c1225 self-witc1425 self-trust1526 self-wisdom1571 self-assurance1595 confidence1599 self-confidence1604 self-security1606 self-sufficiencya1617 sufficiency1638 self-wittedness1647 self-trusting1658 self-poise1774 suffisance1781 cock-surety1819 disinvolturac1847 cocksureness1878 cocksureism1889 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > privacy > [noun] > private matter or business > confiding of confidence1599 confidency1868 the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > [noun] > intimacy > condition of being entrusted with secrets > confiding of private or secret matters confidence1599 confidency1868 1599 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet ii. iii. 118 I desire some confidence with you. View more context for this quotation 1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing iii. v. 2 I would haue some confidence with you. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) i. iv. 155 I will tell your Worship more of the Wart, the next time we haue confidence . View more context for this quotation 1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII i. ii. 168 With demure Confidence, This pausingly ensu'de. View more context for this quotation 1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena 172 He telling [it] in confidence to a friend of his. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 52. ⁋1 No one was in Confidence with her in carrying on this Treaty but the matchless Virgulta. 1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World i. 72 To see, if he could pitch upon one Man more particular than the rest, to enter into some Confidence with. 1741 C. Middleton Hist. Life Cicero I. iv. 244 A citizen who lived afterwards in great confidence with Caesar. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth iii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. II. 96 I have possessed two or three tattling fools, in deep confidence, that [etc.]. 1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues II. 435 Speaking in confidence, for I should not like to have my words repeated. 7. A confidential communication. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > privacy > [noun] > private matter or business counsel1377 secrec1386 secret1450 chamber counsela1616 privatea1616 particulara1617 privacya1625 confidence1748 1748 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 27 Sept. (1932) (modernized text) IV. 1235 He will..be well informed of all that passes..by the confidences made him. 1860 G. A. Sala Lady Chesterfield's Lett. Pref. 3 I intended these Letters to be the confidences and counsels of a garrulous old woman of the world. 1870 A. Helps Secrecy in Ess. 54 Before you make any confidence, you should consider whether the thing you wish to confide is of weight enough to be a secret. †8. Trustworthiness, as a personal quality. a person of confidence: one entrusted with matters of importance or secrecy, a confidential agent. Cf. confident adj. 6. ΘΚΠ society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > faithfulness or trustworthiness > [noun] truthOE trotha1225 truefastnessa1225 trueshipa1225 trueness?c1225 soothnessc1275 faithc1300 good faithc1300 trustc1300 trueheadc1325 traistnessa1340 truthheada1400 faithfulnessc1400 loyaltyc1400 tristiness1408 trustinessc1450 confiance1490 fealty?1515 surety?c1535 loyalness1592 troth-keeping1605 true-heartedness1608 confidence1642 trustworthiness1662 responsibleness1706 dependence1752 reliability1810 trustihood1823 faithworthiness1828 reliableness1841 dependableness1860 dependability1901 the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > care, protection, or charge > [noun] > entrusting to another's care or keeping > one to whom a thing is entrusted repository1592 depositor1604 depositary1608 depository1656 depositee1676 reposure1682 consignatarya1685 custodee1739 a person of confidence1777 repositary1866 1642 Bp. J. Taylor Of Sacred Order Episcopacy (1647) 366 Bishops and Priests were men of great ability and surest confidence for determinations of justice. 1777 W. Robertson Hist. Amer. (1783) II. 223 He sent a person of confidence to the Havana, with..farther orders. 1791 Gentleman's Mag. 61 ii. 864 If your Lordship pleases, I will nominate a person of confidence. 1800 tr. M. de Cervantes Force of Blood 161 She sent a man of confidence to the priest. †9. a. Law. = trust n. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > law > transfer of property > settlement of property > [noun] > putting property into trust > trust reposed in person holding property trust1415 confidence1528 use1535 1528–30 tr. T. Littleton Tenures (new ed.) f. xxxviiii^v Suche feoffement is made vpon confydence to performe the wyll of the feoffoure. 1536 Act 27 Hen. VIII c. 10 Feoffments, fines, recoveries, and other like assurances to uses, confidences, and trusts.—Seised..of..lands..to the use, confidence, or trust of any other person or persons, or of any body politick. 1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. 271 If a man enfeoffe other men of his land vpon confidence, and to the intent to performe his last will. 1767 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (new ed.) II. 332. 1848 J. J. S. Wharton Law Lexicon 669/2 All matters of trust and confidence are exclusively cognizable in equity. b. Christian Church. (See quot. 1872.) ΚΠ 1872 W. H. Jervis Gallican Church I. v. 212 (note) A ‘confidence’ is a contract by which an ecclesiastic receives a benefice on condition of paying the emoluments, or a part of them, to a third person; or covenants to resign the preferment at a specified time. 10. confidence trick (game, etc.): a method of professional swindling, in which the victim is induced to hand over money or other valuables as a token of ‘confidence’ in the sharper. confidence man: one who practises this trick; a professional swindler of respectable appearance and address. Originally U.S. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > [noun] > confidence trick confidence trick (game, etc.)1849 con1889 the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > defrauder or swindler > [noun] > confidence trickster magsman1822 confidence man1849 con artist1878 con man1889 T.B.1912 payoff man1927 pay-off1928 samfie1929 1849 Daily Picayune (New Orleans) 21 June 1/4 ‘Well, then,’ continues the ‘confidence man’, ‘just lend me your watch till to-morrow.’ 1856 Spirit of Age (Sacramento, Calif.) 14 Mar. 4/1 G. W. Meylert's now about town, playing the confidence game and making grand attempts at swindling. 1866 E. A. Pollard Southern Hist. War II. xxv. 477 President Davis..was surrounded by adventurers and ‘confidence-men’. 1867 Congr. Globe 26 Nov. 801/2 A man playing a ‘confidence game’ of the meanest description. 1873 Congr. Globe 18 Jan. 692/1 Like a ‘confidence-man’ as he is, endeavouring to hoist himself into respectability. 1884 Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 22 Nov. 6/5 For some weeks the newspapers here have waged a war of extermination against gamblers, confidence men, thieves and others of like ilk. 1884 Spectator 9 Feb. 182/2 We know of no social puzzle equal in perplexity to the continual success of the Confidence Trick. 1886 Cent. Mag. Feb. 512/2 [They are] Confidence sharps, young feller. 1887 W. S. Gilbert Ruddigore ii. 37 There's confidence tricking, bad coin, pocket-picking, And several other disgraces. 1887 Harper's Mag. Mar. 514/1 Bertha Heymann, ‘Queen of the confidence women’. 1909 Daily Chron. 13 Nov. 4/4 Confidence-tricksters would rather meet a fly-flat than the most learned of Oxford dons; and that is also why the smart Yankee is their most common victim. 1911 N.Y. Evening Post 12 Sept. 1 S. A. Potter was arrested to-day on a charge of operating a confidence game. 1933 C. Day Lewis Magnetic Mountain 47 The Insurance Agent, the Vicar, Hard Cheese the Confidence-Tricker. 1951 E. E. Evans-Pritchard Social Anthropol. vi. 122 After giving advice to travellers..to avoid gambling and confidence tricksters. 1955 Sci. Amer. Apr. 102/3 How you would behave toward two groups, one of whom had been told beforehand that you were outgoing, friendly and warm, while the other had been informed that you were surly, hostile and suspicious. Confidence men are well aware of this feedback effect of the milieu. 1959 J. Braine Vodi v. 75 For a second he had an intimation that already on its way was some event likely to make him permanently happy, then decided not to be taken in by the confidence trick. 11. Used attributively, esp. in Statistics, as confidence coefficient n. (or confidence level) the particular probability used in defining a confidence interval, representing the likelihood that the interval will contain the parameter. confidence interval n. a range of values so defined that there is a specified probability that the value of a parameter of a population lies within it. confidence limit n. either of the two extreme values of a confidence interval. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > probability or statistics > [noun] > confidence interval confidence interval1934 the world > relative properties > number > probability or statistics > [noun] > confidence interval > extreme value of confidence limit1934 level of confidence or significance1950 the world > relative properties > number > probability or statistics > [noun] > confidence interval > probability used in defining confidence coefficient1934 1934 J. Neyman in Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 97 562 The form of this solution consists in determining certain intervals, which I propose to call the confidence intervals.., in which we may assume are contained the values of the estimated characters of the population, the probability of an error in a statement of this sort being equal to or less than 1—ε, where ε is any number 0<ε<1, chosen in advance. The number ε I call the confidence cœfficient. 1939 A. E. Treloar Elements Statist. Reasoning x. 133 Since ±3σ in a normal distribution defines a central probability value of 99·973 per cent, the points x̄±3σx̄ may be referred to as the 99·973 per cent confidence limits. 1968 Brit. Med. Bull. 24 234/1 The proportion of cases misdiagnosed in this way give approximately unbiased estimates of the required probabilities,..and confidence intervals can be found. Compounds confidence-inspiring adj. ΚΠ 1891 W. James Let. 23 Aug. in R. B. Perry Thought & Char. W. James (1935) I. 419 Our children grow lovelier every year and more confidence-inspiring. 1948 B. G. M. Sundkler Bantu Prophets S. Afr. v. 128 It is instructive to study the yearly balance sheets of this Church..arranged in a confidence-inspiring manner. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022). confidencev. Brit. /ˈkɒnfᵻd(ə)ns/, U.S. /ˈkɑnfəd(ə)ns/ Etymology: < confidence n. U.S. slang. transitive. To swindle by means of a confidence trick. ΚΠ 1875 Chicago Tribune 1 Oct. 4 In a back room of some large building..they are ‘confidenced’ of what money they may have about them. 1888 Missouri Republ. 15 Feb. (Farmer) Detectives..arrested Lawrence Stanley..on a charge of confidencing Henry Mueller. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1430v.1875
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