(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.
Helpless
Definition:
(a.) Destitute of help or strength; unable to help or defend one's self; needing help; feeble; weak; as, a helpless infant.
(a.) Beyond help; irremediable.
(a.) Bringing no help; unaiding.
(a.) Unsupplied; destitute; -- with of.
Example Sentences:
(1) The two groups had one thing in common: the casualties' mostly deliberate posttraumatic reaction; there were only 3 patients in a state of helplessness.
(2) For now, the overriding feeling is helplessness, tinged with shame for the last year of passivity.
(3) Five needs were reported by more than 30% of the sample as not being met: 1) being able to talk about fears of the future, illness, or death; 2) being occupied and having things to do; 3) having up-to-date information about HIV; 4) having someone to help them with their feelings of depression, helplessness, anxiety, or anger; and 5) help for the patient's family.
(4) A rating of helplessness shown in the past just before onset of a prior depressive episode suggested a similar raised rate compared to those never depressed.
(5) It is an excruciating fly-on-the-wall witness to Allison's vainglory, Swales's self-regard for his own leadership qualities and the poor young players' overpromoted helplessness.
(6) Fibromyalgia patients reported significantly higher levels of learned helplessness, assessed according to a rheumatology attitudes index (RAI), than patients with all other diseases, and scleroderma patients showed significantly lower RAI scores (P less than 0.05).
(7) The results showed that both drug treatments blocked the deficit in the escape learning (helplessness effect).
(8) Other contributing factors include the high level of helplessness of human infants, the resulting high attachment needs, and the prolongation of development phases.
(9) Results demonstrated that action orientation was associated with self-immunizing cognitions during helplessness training.
(10) The average Eritrean is now “a helpless victim”, he says.
(11) The results demonstrate that patients classified as low helpless were distinct from those classified as normal.
(12) One chronically discomposed self-structure, defining itself as polluted and helpless, trembles with the appalling imagery of historical and imminent community disasters.
(13) In statements, prisoners later described their feeling of helplessness, of being cut off from the rest of the world in a place where there was no law and no rules.
(14) Your feelings of guilt and helplessness may be difficult to deal with, but you may not be what is needed right now.
(15) Limited opportunities for exercising self-control while incarcerated may encourage helplessness.
(16) It is this sense of being helpless, of being forgotten, of having the social settlement recast in ways that takes away while offering nothing in return, and, above all, of not being heard that so inflames not just students but huge swaths of the British.
(17) Instead of feeling helpless, you feel positive and think ‘Well, I made a difference last weekend, sealing up that draughty room.’ There is a wave of change building and people doing things slowly influences governments and companies too.
(18) The validity of the RAI was established in comparisons to the Arthritis Helplessness Index.
(19) We investigated the relationship between changes in helplessness and depression to disease activity in rheumatoid arthritis (RA).
(20) Infants which are born naked, blind and helpless elicit retrieving and nest building and are cleaned and cared for by the female.