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Assuredness

noun
1.
Great coolness and composure under strain.  Synonyms: aplomb, cool, poise, sang-froid.






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"Assuredness" Quotes from Famous Books



... of absolute assuredness so inseparably bound up with the reformers. 'Zwingli and Bucer may be inspired by the Spirit, Erasmus from himself is nothing but a man and cannot comprehend what is ...
— Erasmus and the Age of Reformation • Johan Huizinga

... of human nature the Nevada assembly was a veritable lecture-room. In it his understanding, his wit, his phrasing, his self-assuredness grew like Jack's bean-stalk, which in time was ready to break through into a land above the sky. He made some curious blunders in his reports, in the beginning; but he was so frank in his ignorance and in his confession of it that the very unsophistication ...
— Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete - The Personal And Literary Life Of Samuel Langhorne Clemens • Albert Bigelow Paine



Words linked to "Assuredness" :   assured, equanimity, calm, calmness, composure, poise, cool



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