confidentlyadv.
/ˈkɒnfɪdəntli/ In a confident manner; with confidence; with firm trust, belief, or assurance; boldly, unhesitatingly; without doubt or diffidence.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > belief, trust, confidence > [adverb]
trustlya1200
safelyc1330
traistlya1340
trustilya1375
traistilya1400
trustinglya1475
surely1523
trustfully?1531
confidently1597
affiantlya1641
fiduciarily1654
credently1832
confidingly1885
the mind > emotion > courage > confidence > [adverb]
sickerlyc1275
feably1490
confidently1597
perfidently1650
confidentially1680
unhesitatingly1829
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > hope > confident hope, trust > [adverb]
confidently1597
affiantlya1641
dependingly1658
confidentially1680
1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxviii. 183 Confidently from hence to conclude the necessitie.
1611 Bible (King James) Luke xxii. 59 Another confidently affirmed, saying, Of a trueth this fellow also was with him. View more context for this quotation
1669 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense (ed. 3) 43 Trust not..the Nights too confidently, unless the weather be thorowly setled.
a1800 W. Cowper Horace Where duty bids he confidently steers.
1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt III. xxxvi. 31 He had counted confidently on Harold's ready seizure of his offer.
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