单词 | self-assurance |
释义 | self-assurancen. A feeling of assurance regarding oneself or one's abilities, status, prospects, etc.; self-confidence. 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 > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > absence of doubt, confidence > [noun] > self-confidence self-assurance1595 self-confidence1604 self-possession1665 aplomb1828 self-assuredness1858 self-efficacy1930 swag2002 1595 E. Spenser Amoretti lix, in Amoretti & Epithalamion sig. D7 Thrise happie she, that is so well assured Vnto her selfe... Such selfe assurance need not feare the spight, Of grudging foes. 1641 E. Kellett Tricoenium Christi ii. xvi. 360 The rather to beate downe his selfe-love, selfe-conceit, selfe-assurance. 1684 T. Godwyn Phanatical Tenderness 17 I desired of him..to know who was the Author [of this Paper],..out of self assurance, that no proof or probability of such guilt could rest upon me. 1713 R. Bentley Remarks Disc. Free-thinking I. iii. 11 Self Assurance supplies all want of Abilities. 1787 T. Holcroft Seduction iv. iii. 54 A self-assurance that he who, at present, possesses my heart, will not, so soon, be weary of me. 1805 J. Foster Essays II. iii. ii. 22 The flattering self-assurance simply of a life of singular felicity. 1817 W. Scott Rob Roy I. xii. 293 Lightness, gallantry, and something approaching to well-bred self-assurance. 1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles I. vi. 87 Going about her business with some self-assurance in the thought [etc.]. 1954 M. Savill tr. J.-P. Sartre In Mesh 62 Although she has a certain poise she has none of the insolent self-assurance Suzanne attributed to her. 2013 Daily Tel. 27 Sept. 27/1 They exhibit the self-assurance that comes with a pint of blue blood. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1595 |
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