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prefident

prefident adjective: trusting beforehand; overconfident.

Adjective

prefident (comparative more prefident, superlative most prefident)

  1. (obsolete) Trusting 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

Forms of prefident

comparativemore prefident
superlativemost prefident

Origin of prefident

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

Questions about prefident

What does prefident mean?
Prefident means trusting beforehand; overconfident.
What part of speech is prefident?
Prefident is an adjective.

Words near prefident in the dictionary

  1. prefibrotic
  2. prefices
  3. prefictional
  4. prefidence
  5. prefidences
  6. prefident
  7. prefield
  8. prefigation
  9. prefight
  10. prefigurable
  11. prefigurate

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