rare–1. [f. as prec. + -NESS.] The state or quality of being confident, confidence.
1730–6. in Bailey (folio). Hence in Johnson, etc.
1829. T. W. C. Edwards, trans. Sophocles’ Philoctetes, 18. How hath he any prodigious confidentness of strength?
rare–1. [f. as prec. + -NESS.] The state or quality of being confident, confidence.
1730–6. in Bailey (folio). Hence in Johnson, etc.
1829. T. W. C. Edwards, trans. Sophocles’ Philoctetes, 18. How hath he any prodigious confidentness of strength?
