Word Meanings - UNCONFIDENCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Absence of confidence; uncertainty; doubt.
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- CONFIDENCE
1. The act of confiding, trusting, or putting faith in; trust; reliance; belief; -- formerly followed by of, now commonly by in. Society is built upon trust, and trust upon confidence of one another's integrity. South. A cheerful confidence in - ABSENCE
1. A state of being absent or withdrawn from a place or from companionship; -- opposed to presence. Not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence. Phil. ii. 12. 2. Want; destitution; withdrawal. "In the absence of conventional law." - DOUBTFULLY
In a doubtful manner. Nor did the goddess doubtfully declare. Dryden. - UNCERTAINTY
1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange. - DOUBT
duten, douten, OF. duter, doter, douter, F. douter, fr. L. dubitare; 1. To waver in opinion or judgment; to be in uncertainty as to belief respecting anything; to hesitate in belief; to be undecided as to the truth of the negative or - DOUBTFULNESS
1. State of being doubtful. 2. Uncertainty of meaning; ambiguity; indefiniteness. " The doubtfulness of his expressions." Locke. 3. Uncertainty of event or issue. Bacon. - DOUBTFUL
1. Not settled in opinion; undetermined; wavering; hesitating in belief; also used, metaphorically, of the body when its action is affected by such a state of mind; as, we are doubtful of a fact, or of the propriety of a measure. Methinks I should - DOUBTOUS
Doubtful. Chaucer. - DOUBTABLE
1. Capable of being doubted; questionable. 2. Worthy of being feared; redoubtable. - DOUBTING
That is uncertain; that distrusts or hesitates; having doubts. -- Doubt"ing*ly, adv. - DOUBTANCE
State of being in doubt; uncertainty; doubt. Chaucer. - DOUBTLESS
Free from fear or suspicion. Pretty child, sleep doubtless and secure. Shak. - DOUBTER
One who doubts; one whose opinion is unsettled; one who scruples. - DOUBTLESSLY
Unquestionably. Beau. & Fl. - REDOUBTABLE
Formidable; dread; terrible to foes; as, a redoubtable hero; - SELF-CONFIDENCE
The quality or state of being self-confident; self-reliance. A feeling of self-confidence which supported and sustained him. Beaconsfield. - REDOUBT
reductus, literally, a retreat, from L. reductus drawn back, retired, p. p. of reducere to lead or draw back; cf. F. réduit, also fr. LL. A small, and usually a roughly constructed, fort or outwork of varying shape, commonly erected - MISDOUBT
To be suspicious of; to have suspicion. I do not misdoubt my wife. Shak. - REDOUBTING
Reverence; honor. In redoutyng of Mars and of his glory. Chaucer. - UNDOUBTED
Not doubted; not called in question; indubitable; indisputable; as, undoubted proof; undoubted hero. -- Un*doubt"ed*ly, adv. - MISDOUBTFUL
Misgiving; hesitating. "Her misdoubtful mind." Spenser. - UNDOUBTABLE
Indubitable.