prefidence

English

Noun

prefidence (usually uncountable, plural prefidences)

1. (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[an] 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.

References

• “prefidence”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.