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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 A state of being absent or withdrawn from a place or from companionship; -- opposed to presence.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.

 

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