(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.
Treachery
Definition:
(n.) Violation of allegiance or of faith and confidence; treasonable or perfidious conduct; perfidy; treason.
Example Sentences:
(1) All potential treacheries must be assessed by each elderly traveler.
(2) ‘Patriotism’ is a difficult concept to pin, and one man’s patriotism can easily be misjudged as folly or even treachery if we start judging based on a narrow understanding of the term.” Walid, a Muslim veteran of the navy, added that “even though we invaded Iraq based upon bogus information, that doesn’t diminish the sacrifice of Captain Khan and other American service members who lost their lives”.
(3) He has been accused by the Eurosceptic press of treachery, a vanishing act and a euro sulk.
(4) 2.31am BST Turnbull hurled his observation that the Bloguer Bolter, (with his treachery theory), was losing a certain amount of .. shall we say .. grip .. while attending Stay Smart Online week.
(5) Not only did he miss a sitter in a defeat that meant an early exit for Spain, he was also booed throughout by Brazilian fans who cannot forgive his “treachery”.
(6) Earlier in the day a last-ditch effort by the junta to stem the violence by offering concessions to their critics – including the passing of a long-awaited "treachery law" that would bar former members of Hosni Mubarak's now-disbanded ruling party from running in the upcoming elections, which are now less than a week away – appeared only to galvanise resistance.
(7) And a febrile media culture has developed that rewards treachery.
(8) of Jürgen Klopp's side have taken to the attacking midfielder's Facebook page to accuse him of treachery, which is less than ideal preparation ahead of Dortmund's semi-final first leg against Real Madrid tomorrow night, arguably the biggest fixture in the German club's history.
(9) "This is rank treachery," Zuckerman replied angrily, while Mountbatten later reported the conversation to the Queen.
(10) Zardari's government was accused of treachery over the proposal, which was made in a memo delivered to the US military chief, Admiral Mike Mullen.
(11) It had been "hard to withstand tribalism", he said, but insisted that working in partnership during a period of crisis was not treachery but "progress".
(12) The state news agency KCNA runs a curious combination of brief news items such as its coverage of Clinton's visit, angry denunciations of the treachery of "puppet authorities" in South Korea and long tales of the leadership's care for ordinary people.
(13) Former Wallabies player Bill Calcraft eyes Bronwyn Bishop’s Sydney seat Read more Bishop’s office has been inundated with calls complaining of her “treachery”, to the point where her staffers turned off the phones.
(14) He sold off natural resources "at random" and committed treachery by selling off land at the Rason special economic zone for five decades, it added, apparently in reference to a deal with Russia.
(15) Although I will admit that the fact he preceded this terrible announcement about the treachery of his homeland with a tweet to Ping Pong saying how much he is "looking forward to seeing my fluffy sweet parrot soon!
(16) But distrust is equally growing in America, where, in the aftermath of the Bin Laden raid, Pakistan has become a byword for treachery and clumsy deception – even on the comedy stations.
(17) The pressure against such "treachery" will be intense – there are parallels here with the crisis Papandreou's grandfather faced as prime minister in 1965.
(18) On the one hand, Breivik indicts feminism with causing our alleged "cultural suicide", both by encouraging reproductive treachery and also because women are apparently more supportive of multiculturalism.
(19) Ahmed is now between Allah's hands and Allah is a thousand times more powerful than the west.” But there is bitterness too over suspicions, widely shared in militant circles here, of treachery and the belief that fellow Libyans collaborated with US forces to lure Abu Khattala to the outskirts of Benghazi, where he was apparently bundled into a car and driven to a waiting helicopter.
(20) When the ISI discovered this "act of treachery", Haqqani, instead of saying that he was acting under orders from Zardari, denied the entire story.