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KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

 

Confident

The Bible

Bible Usage:

Dictionaries:

  • Included in Eastons: No
  • Included in Hitchcocks: No
  • Included in Naves: No
  • Included in Smiths: No
  • Included in Websters: Yes
  • Included in Strongs: Yes
  • Included in Thayers: Yes
  • Included in BDB: Yes

Strongs Concordance:

Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Confident

CON'FIDENT, adjective

1. Having full belief; trusting; relying; fully assured.

I am confident that much may be cone towards the improvement of philosophy.

The troops rush on, confident of success.

2. Positive; dogmatical; as a confident talker.

3. Trusting; without suspicion.

Rome, be as just and gracious unto me, as I am confident and kind to thee.

4. Bold to a vice; having an excess of assurance.

The fool rageth and is confident Proverbs 14:16.

CON'FIDENT, noun One entrusted with secrets; a confidential or bosom friend.

[This word has been usually, but improperly, written confidant. I have followed the regular English orthography, as Coxe and Mitford have done.]


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Confidential

CONFIDEN'TIAL, adjective

1. Enjoying the confidence of another; trusty; that may be safely trusted; as a confidential friend.

2. That is to be treated or kept in confidence; private; as a confidential matter.

3. Admitted to a special confidence.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Confidentially

CONFIDEN'TIALLY, adverb In confidence; in reliance or secrecy.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Confidently

CON'FIDENTLY, adverb With firm trust; with strong assurance; without doubt or wavering of opinion; positively; as, to believe confidently; to assert confidently


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Confidentness

CON'FIDENTNESS, noun Confidence; the quality or state of having full reliance.