assuredness
(əˈʃʊərɪdnɪs)
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
1. Objective certainty; = assurance 6.
| 1570 T. Norton Nowel's Catech. (1853) 151 He continued and maintained the assuredness of his promises. 1680 H. More Apocal. Pref. 14 That there may be no distrust of the assuredness of our Interpretation. 1851 Ruskin Mod. Paint. II. iii. ii. iii. §25 That which is doubtful..has strength, sinew, and assuredness, built up in it by fact. |
2. Subjective certainty, certitude, confidence, trust; = assurance 7.
| 1561 T. N[orton] Calvin's Inst. i. 14 To fasten in their harts that assurednesse that godlinesse requireth. a 1679 T. Goodwin Wks. 1864 VIII. 266 In all faith there is..an assuredness of the things that I do believe. |
3. Self-confidence, firmness of mind, intrepidity; hardihood, audacity. Cf. assurance 8, 9.
| 1581 Savile Tacitus' Agric. (1622) 202 With an assurednesse and great grace in his countenance. 1613 Sir E. Sackville in Guardian No. 133 (1756) II. 199 Being verily mad with anger, the lord Bruce should thirst after my life with a kind of assuredness. 1647 Sir C. Cotterell Davila's Hist. Fr. (1678) 16 To encounter with..assuredness any opposition. 1748 Richardson Clarissa (1811) II. i. 3 To give us women a little air of vanity and assuredness at public places. |