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confident

/ˈkɑnfɪdənt/ adjective A2
  1. Very sure of something; positive. · I'm pretty confident that she's not lying, she's acting normally.· He was confident of success.
  2. Self-assured, self-reliant, sure of oneself.
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Darcy’s treatment of him, she tried to remember something of that gentleman’s reputed disposition, when quite a lad, which might agree with it; and was confident, at last, that she recollected having heard Mr.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 166 · B2
I am confident that she would have performed delightfully.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 200 · B2
She was confident of having performed her duty; and to fret over unavoidable evils, or augment them by anxiety, was no part of her disposition.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 262 · B2
Like most clever criminals, he may be too confident in his own cleverness and imagine that he has completely deceived us.”
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 172 · C1

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