(n.) The act of confiding, trusting, or putting faith in; trust; reliance; belief; -- formerly followed by of, now commonly by in.
(n.) That in which faith is put or reliance had.
(n.) The state of mind characterized by one's reliance on himself, or his circumstances; a feeling of self-sufficiency; such assurance as leads to a feeling of security; self-reliance; -- often with self prefixed.
(n.) Private conversation; (pl.) secrets shared; as, there were confidences between them.
(n.) Trustful; without fear or suspicion; frank; unreserved.
(n.) Having self-reliance; bold; undaunted.
(n.) Having an excess of assurance; bold to a fault; dogmatical; impudent; presumptuous.
(n.) Giving occasion for confidence.
Example Sentences:
(1) When pooled data were analysed, this difference was highly significant (p = 0.0001) with a relative risk of schizophrenia in homozygotes of 2.61 (95% confidence intervals 1.60-4.26).
(2) Confidence is the major prerequisite for a doctor to be able to help his seriously ill patient.
(3) Men who ever farmed were at slightly elevated risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (odds ratio = 1.2, 95% confidence interval = 1.0-1.5) that was not linked to specific crops or particular animals.
(4) Although, it did give me the confidence to believe that my voice was valid and important.
(5) But Howard added that it may take a while and he is not confident the political reality will change.
(6) Jaczko's appearance was the second show of confidence in the nuclear industry since Sunday.
(7) Subjects in the highest quartile of the insulin distribution had 6.6 times the risk of developing type II diabetes as subjects in the remaining three quartiles combined (95% confidence interval [CI] = 3.14-13.7).
(8) However, self-efficacy (defined as confidence in being able to resist the urge to drink heavily) assessed at intake of treatment, was strongly associated with the level of consumption on drinking occasions at follow-up.
(9) As Heseltine himself argued, after the success of last summer's Olympics, "our aim must be to become a nation of cities possessed of London's confidence and elan" .
(10) The adjusted odds ratio of having one or more hospitalization for current drinkers relative to life-long abstainers in females was 0.67 (95 per cent confidence interval 0.57-0.79) and in males was 0.74 (0.57-0.96).
(11) "There is sufficient evidence... of past surface temperatures to say with a high level of confidence that the last few decades of the 20th century were warmer than any comparable period in the last 400 years.
(12) She has imbued me with the confidence of encouraging other girls to dream alternative futures that do not rely on FGM as a prerequisite.
(13) The changes are necessary to produce confident, supportive community oriented nurses.
(14) The relationship between certain prenatal and background variables and maternal confidence also was assessed.
(15) Central assessment of the angiograms revealed a patent infarct-related artery in 78 patients (patency rate 66%, 95% confidence limits 57 to 74%).
(16) We need to be confident that the criminal justice system takes child abuse seriously.
(17) Twellman has steadily grown in confidence as he settles into his role, though whether as a player or as an advocate he was never shy about voicing his opinions.
(18) We are confident that the European commission’s state aid decision on Hinkley Point C is legally robust,” a spokeswoman for Britain’s Department of Energy and Climate Change said last week.
(19) By 1988, nearly one-half of the public expressed confidence in the future of the Social Security program.
(20) In confidence rape, the assailant is known to some degree, however slight, and gains control over his victim by winning her trust.
Defiance
Definition:
(n.) The act of defying, putting in opposition, or provoking to combat; a challenge; a provocation; a summons to combat.
(n.) A state of opposition; willingness to flight; disposition to resist; contempt of opposition.
(n.) A casting aside; renunciation; rejection.
Example Sentences:
(1) The glory lay in the defiance, although the outcome of the tie scarcely looks promising for Arsenal when the return at Camp Nou next Tuesday is borne in mind.
(2) 'This is the upside of the downside': Women's March finds hope in defiance Read more As thousands gathered for the afternoon rally and march, Trump tweeted his solidarity with their action.
(3) North Korea's blustering defiance at the annual US-South Korean exercises masks just a little fear that they could easily be turned into an all-out attack, and seems to work on the principle that the more you shout, the safer you will be.
(4) With Bournemouth full of zest and defiance, the game zipped by.
(5) Residents in Spain’s north-eastern region of Catalonia cast their ballot in a symbolic referendum on Sunday in defiance of the central government in Madrid and Spain’s constitutional court.
(6) In a burst of defiance, I wanted to answer: “Yes, you bet I can get around safely!” Over a cup of tea, I discussed the problem with my wife.
(7) But the British government is facing a catch-22 situation, being equally anxious – as former diplomat Oliver Miles pointed out in the London Review of Books – to avoid setting the opposing precedent of allowing Assange to remain as a fugitive within the embassy in defiance of a European arrest warrant.
(8) In the early hours of Friday, exactly 25 years after US forces bombed Gaddafi's Bab al-Aziziya compound in central Tripoli, thousands gathered in defiance of the new international coalition against the Libyan regime's brutal efforts to suppress the uprising from the east.
(9) Since his unexpected victory, Trump has sounded a note of defiance regarding the legality of continuing with his business operations in tandem with the presidency.
(10) The city responded with a mixture of fear and defiance, sharing pictures of cuddly animals on hashtags for the attack in place of the usual images of police, and offering homes, mosques and even grounded train carriages as shelter for those stranded by the shutdown.
(11) They fit with his continuation of the regime’s systemic human rights abuses, its pitiless prison labour camp system including enslavement, forced abortions and systemic rape, its abductions and foreign hostage-taking, and its aggressive defiance of its neighbours.
(12) Despite his bullish defiance over the weekend following his re-election – blaming US investigators and the British media for trying to unseat him – Blatter cut a diminished figure following a day of speculation over the fate of his right-hand man Valcke.
(13) He said the evidence of their lies and conspiracies – a tactic known as the "defiance strategy" – at the very least raised substantial doubts about the prosecution case.
(14) While deplorable and to a degree self-defeating, this insouciant defiance also makes a grim kind of sense, both historically and reinforced by recent events.
(15) The head of Greenpeace International was being held by police in a Greenland cell on Friday after boarding a giant oil rig in defiance of a court injunction .
(16) That resumption of normality is, in itself, a predictable and a necessary act of defiance.
(17) The defiance (but not the hyperactivity) scales were associated with impairment of family relationships and adverse social factors.
(18) However, citing the brutality of security agents, the arrests and disappearance of opposition supporters, he says that Museveni’s actions are illegal and that “it is the duty of Ugandans to stand up in defiance and challenge him”.
(19) Claire Perry , the Devizes MP and a ministerial aide to the defence secretary Philip Hammond, recently tried unsuccessfully to persuade female colleagues to stop dyeing their hair for a month, letting their grey roots show in a statement of defiance against the pressure on women to look artificially young.
(20) After all, every veto holder had attacked another country in defiance of the charter, but no one had ever disputed the alleged Westphalian right of each anointed thug to mistreat his "own" people.