self-assurance

[ self-uh-shoor-uhns, self- ]

noun

1. self-confidence.

self-assurance

noun

1. confidence in the validity, value, etc, of one's own ideas, opinions, etc

Word History and Origins

Origin of self-assurance¹

First recorded in 1585–95

Example Sentences

This is a promising sign in itself: the discipline and self-assurance to quit while ahead is sadly rare in any creative field.

From The Daily Beast

A transplanted New Yorker, Wasserman Schultz learned early on the value of hard work and never lacked self-assurance.

From The Daily Beast

He had this eerie feline self-assurance, and it was hypnotic.

From The Daily Beast

Her beauty seems to telegraph an inner radiance of well-honed intelligence and gentle self-assurance.

From The Daily Beast

He had felt in the lawyer's presence the contact of a nature which possessed more self-assertion and self-assurance than his own.

From Project Gutenberg

This last rumor was not calculated to increase his appetite, or restore his self-complacency and self-assurance.

From Project Gutenberg

Masirewa amused me more each day by his cheek and self-assurance.

From Project Gutenberg

Petzholdt's self-assurance carries him to the length of condemning books that he has not seen.

From Project Gutenberg

But for all his efforts at self assurance, when he went home to Aunt Sarah he was not in the most easy frame of mind.

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