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• n  freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities
• n  the quality of being steady and unfailing
  sureness of hand

• Above all, The Sheltering Sky is drenched with a fine sense of place, and it sketches Arab towns and the Sahara itself with sharp sureness.
• She does it with sureness, for she knows her villagers and she knows even more importantly, that when a man has failed another man, he has failed himself even worse.
• Then I started watching Thierry play soccer, and you could see the same sureness in his eyes.

• assurance
• self-assurance
• confidence
• self-confidence
• authority