prefident

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adjective

Trusting beforehand; overconfident.

OriginLatin praefidens →
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Meanings

adjectiveprefident (comparative more prefident, superlative most prefident)

comparative more prefident · superlative most prefident

  1. obsoleteTrusting beforehand; overconfident.

    If the Pastors themselves were not prefident and presumptuous over-valuers of their own apprehensions!

    1689, Richard Baxter, A treatise of knowledge and love compared in two parts

Origin

  1. Latinpraefidens“overconfident”
  2. Englishprefident

Compare Latin praefidens (“overconfident”). See pre- and confident.

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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