CONFIDENTLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does confidently mean? 

• CONFIDENTLY (adverb)
  The adverb CONFIDENTLY has 1 sense:

1. with confidence; in a confident manner

  Familiarity information: CONFIDENTLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONFIDENTLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With confidence; in a confident manner

Context example:

we have to do what is right confidently

Pertainym:

confident (having or marked by confidence or assurance)

 Context examples 

The drivers confidently expected a long stopover.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

He must have known, somehow, that we were on board, for he said “Good-morning” very confidently, and waited, for the greeting to be returned.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Santa smiled, nodded and responded confidently, looking at Otis, “I know this is Otis! Hello!”

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

I trust it confidently to your not suppressing anything.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

This helped the cub's courage, and though the woodpecker he next encountered gave him a start, he proceeded confidently on his way.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Our hope is that doctors and veterinarians will be able to quickly and confidently identify amatoxin poisoning rather than having to clinically eliminate other suspected gastrointestinal diseases first, she added.

(New Test Identifies Poisonous Mushrooms, Agricultural Research Service)

Impulsive he might be, enthusiastic, sensitive, with something sympathetic and adaptive in his disposition; but an observer of nature's tokens would have confidently pledged himself that there was native firmness and strength underlying his gentle, monk-bred ways.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I looked upon him as the sort of person to be made a fuss with, and to make a fuss himself in any trifling disorder, and was chiefly concerned for those who had to nurse him; but now it is confidently asserted that he is really in a decline, that the symptoms are most alarming, and that part of the family, at least, are aware of it.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

And yet it was the single man who appealed confidently to force, whilst the huge multitude swayed and murmured like a mutinous fierce-willed creature brought face to face with a power against which it knew that there was neither argument nor resistance.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The lights of the Mariposa were growing dim in the distance, and there he was, swimming confidently, as though it were his intention to make for the nearest land a thousand miles or so away.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)