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cocksureness
ˌcockˈsureness [f. prec. + -ness.] Confident certainty; generally with the implication of being over-sure.1878 Fraser's Mag. XVIII. 510 The fluency and the ‘cock-sure-ness’ which are rarely found in perfection in any one but an Irish Protestant. 1882 H. Quilter in Contemp. Rev. Feb. 279 The cocksure... Oxford English Dictionary
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Maynard M. Metcalf
There was no cocksureness in him. Instead he was rather cautious and deprecatory and sometimes he halted and confessed his ignorance. wikipedia.org
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cock-sure
cock-sure, a. (adv.) (kɒkˈʃʊə(r)) [According to the regular force of similar formations, e.g. stone-deaf, clay-cold, dog-sick, dirt-cheap, coal-black, etc., the sense ought to be ‘as sure as a cock’. The conjecture that there is some allusion to cockish, cocky, with reference to ‘pert self-confidenc... Oxford English Dictionary
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plerophory
plerophory Now rare. (plɪˈrɒfərɪ) [ad. Gr. πληροϕορία (Heb. vi. 11, x. 22, etc.) fullness of assurance, f. *πληροϕόρος bringing satisfaction, f. πλήρης full, satisfied + -ϕόρος bearing; cf. πληροϕορεῖν to bring full measure, satisfy fully.] Full assurance or certainty. (Common in 17th c. in theologi... Oxford English Dictionary
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Joy Davidman
All my defenses – all the walls of arrogance and cocksureness and self-love behind which I had hid from God – went down momentarily – and God came in." wikipedia.org
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Sherman Bell
William MacLeod Raine spent some time interviewing Bell in 1904, and concluded that Bell, filled with "cocksureness", ...sums up [any situation], largely wikipedia.org
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school-marm
ˈschool-marm orig. U.S. Also ma'm, -ma'am. 1. A schoolmistress. Now freq. implying the conventionally prim and correct behaviour of a school-mistress. Also fig.1831 Ladies' Mag. (Boston) IV. 557 [It] obliged me to stay the longest in the houses where.. there was the most work to do, and the least ti... Oxford English Dictionary
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