rare. [f. as prec. and -ENCY.] † a. Confidence, trust, reliance; † b. Assurance, boldness; c. Confidential intimacy.
1600. Holland, Livy, XXVI. xxiv. 602. Dorimachus … with lesse modestie and greater asseveration and confidencie [majore fide], extolled … the greatnesse … of the people of Rome.
1603. Knolles, Hist. Turks (1621), 251. Who with great boldnesse and confidencie, published Bedredin his doctrine and authority.
1606. Earl Northampton, in True & Perf. Relation, G g ij b. Which … implies weake confidencie.
1660. Jer. Taylor, Duct. Dubit., II. vi. § 41. To produce confidencies in dead substances cloth’d with accidents of art.
1868. Browning, Ring & Bk., IV. 1014. Had such a confidency sprung to birth With no more fanning from acquaintanceship Than here avowed.
