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Prefidence, n. [e.m.E. (17th c.), f. L. praefīdens trusting too much, over-confident.] Over-confidence, presumption. —1596 R. Bruce Wodrow's Life of Bruce App. 186.
The way of presumption is not our way … .We leave the way of prefidence to them that presume of their own strength
