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confidens

Confidens is a term derived from the Latin confidens, the present participle of confidere, meaning to trust. In Latin, confidens translates roughly as trusting or confident and has been used to describe a state of certainty, reliance, or assurance in various moral and intellectual contexts.

In English, confidens appears mainly in etymological discussions of related words such as confident and confidant.

Historical usage: In medieval and early modern Latin texts, confidens was used to describe a person who

Contemporary usage: Some writers employ confidens as a coined or literary term to evoke a sense of

See also: confidant, confident, confidence, trust.

It
is
not
a
widely
used
standalone
word
in
modern
English
and
has
no
established
definition
in
most
dictionaries.
exercises
trust
or
a
state
of
confidence
in
a
belief
or
oath.
In
later
scholarship,
the
form
survives
in
discussions
of
trust,
credibility,
and
character,
though
it
is
not
a
standard
philosophical
term.
mutual
trust
within
a
relationship
or
to
name
a
hypothetical
quality
of
a
person
who
keeps
confidences.
As
a
result,
the
term
remains
rare
and
context-dependent.