self-confident

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From self- +‎ confident.

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self-confident (comparative more self-confident, superlative most self-confident)

  1. Confident in one's own abilities.
    • 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
      This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. [] His air, of self-confident assurance, seemed that of a man well used to having his own way.

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