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CONFIDENTLY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
With confidence; in a confident manner
Example:
we have to do what is right confidently
Classified under:
Pertainym:
confident (having or marked by confidence or assurance)
Context examples:
There were few people on whose secrecy she would have more confidently depended; but, at the same time, there was no one whose knowledge of a sister's frailty would have mortified her so much—not, however, from any fear of disadvantage from it individually to herself, for, at any rate, there seemed a gulf impassable between them.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Buck confidently selected a spot, and with much fuss and waste effort proceeded to dig a hole for himself.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
On our way back, my aunt informed me how she confidently trusted that the life I was now to lead would make me firm and self-reliant, which was all I wanted.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
You want to be organized and then confidently close the chapter on 2019.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
“Don't be unhappy, Trotwood. If you cannot confidently trust me, whom will you trust?”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
It is very bold in me, said Agnes, looking up again, who have lived in such seclusion, and can know so little of the world, to give you my advice so confidently, or even to have this strong opinion.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Notwithstanding the aversion with which I regarded the idea of entrapping him into any disclosure he was not prepared to make voluntarily, I should have taken him up at this point, but for the strange proceedings in which I saw him engaged; whereof his putting the lemon-peel into the kettle, the sugar into the snuffer-tray, the spirit into the empty jug, and confidently attempting to pour boiling water out of a candlestick, were among the most remarkable.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
This seemed to reassure him and he continued more confidently.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
