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English
Noun
prefidence (usually uncountable, plural prefidences)
- (obsolete) The quality or state of being prefident.
1681, Richard Baxter, “What are Mens Duties to Each Other as Elder and Yonger”, in Compassionate Counsel to All Young-Men. , London: T. S. and are to be sold by B. Simmons, and Jonath Greenwood, , published 1682, →OCLC, §. 7, paragraph 4, page 186:For being uſually miſtaken for vvant of patient tryal, they ſay vvhat they think, and are not to be much believed in their prefidence.
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