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Meanings of sureness in English

Portuguese
altivez
Catalan
autoconfiança
Spanish
seguridad

Freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities.

        altivez
        Usage of sureness in English
        1
        Plenty of contemporary accounts admired his adroitness, sureness, strength, fluency and tone.
        Radio NZ
        2
        We should like to be informed of the grounds of this sureness.
        Evolution and Ethics, and Other Essays
        3
        He also knew, with sudden sureness, that it was one of many.
        Oberheim (Voices): A Chronicle of War
        4
        They seemed rather puzzled in spite of the cock-sureness of the first individual.
        Joe Strong the Boy Fire-Eater; Or, The Most Dangerous Performanc...
        5
        Mr. Prohack could appreciate the catholicity and sureness of taste which it displayed.
        Mr. Prohack
        6
        And when I am fulfilling it I have sureness and peace.
        Resurrection
        7
        Lack of sureness is neither a Gryffindor nor a Slytherin trait.
        James Potter and the Hall of Elders' Crossing
        8
        No, the transparent sureness of it set sneeringly a-curl the San Reve's mouth.
        The President: A Novel
        9
        In her relief, ever so slightly, Ali leaned against that sureness.
        The Descent
        10
        And she had never, ever, returned the affection with such sureness and ease.
        My deadly valentine
        11
        You heard Aaron complaining at table, and Terrence explaining, his sureness.
        The Little Lady of the Big House
        12
        Of a sureness he is a strong man, wise, cool, resourceful.
        Steve Yeager
        13
        The great awfulness of the Roman power was in the sureness of its conquests.
        The Chosen People: A Compendium of Sacred and Church History for...
        14
        The cunning of the half-breed was diabolic in its sureness.
        The Place Beyond the Winds
        15
        The day of their second contest arrived with inexorable sureness.
        The darkness before the dawn
        16
        On the other hand the law holds with equal sureness for all right action.
        Essays — First Series
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