LekhoriLekhoriSelf-assurance.
He entered the ring with confidence.
A feeling of certainty; firm trust or belief; faith.
She had confidence it would soon end.
Information held in secret; a piece of information shared but to thence be kept in secret.
In the course of these confidences it became quite plain to me I had been represented to the wife of the high dignitary, and goodness knows to how many more people besides, as an exceptional and gifted creature - a piece of good fortune for the Company - a man you don’t get hold of every day.
From Middle English confidence, from Latin cōnfīdentia (possibly via Old French confidence), from cōnfīdō (“believe, confide in”) from con- (“with”) + fīdō (“trust”). By surface analysis, confide + en...
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