Adjective : an assured income. ,His art was both assured and facile.    From Dictionary.com. 

Likewise, his self-assuredness is delivered with wide grins and satisfied yuks.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - 'The Exception' rules the speedskating oval] Reference

The assuredness he'd so lately found deserted him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hunting Season]

He has a very self-assuredness that impressed me, too.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 25, 2005] Reference

Just say that, everywhere, with the greatest assuredness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12] Reference

I would give her a base coat of stability and assuredness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The DC Damsel: A Mother's Day Manicure] Reference

So the Dutch move on, with their trademark self-assuredness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Silent Orange March Continues] Reference

I am so proud of her for her confidence, her self - assuredness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lee Woodruff: In Praise of Warrior Moms] Reference

Alexia Voulgaridou, as Micaëla, sang with pleasing assuredness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Donna Perlmutter: Dudamel Opens a New View at Hollywood Bowl] Reference

But the sense of peace, of blessed assuredness, remained with her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hermit of Far End] Reference

He would have to calm himself, present his usual air of assuredness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quite Ugly One Morning]

The breadth and assuredness of Suri's first novel will surprise you.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Death of Vishnu: Summary and book reviews of The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri.] Reference

"It'll be all right, Kim," said Kate with an assuredness she did not feel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Empire Builders]

I liked the assuredness of knowing that I would get that paycheck every week.    From Wordnik.com.  [Laura Trice: Starting a Business and Following a Dream - Miniseries- Part 1] Reference

Words ticked out with the smooth assuredness of a paid political announcement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Firestorm]

And then there is the disjunction between his inexperience and his assuredness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pro-Obama Union's Spanish Radio Ad In Nevada: "Hillary Clinton Is Shameless"] Reference

Actually, I wouldn't say with much assuredness that it is aimed only at women.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Hillary Mailer In New Hampshire: "Ready"] Reference

They have in common only their own self-assuredness and frequent want of humility.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prescription Politics] Reference

This would enable me to proceed in the difficult path before me with more assuredness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference

He had a round, freckled face, curly red hair and eyes brimming with self-assuredness.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Twisted Stories Vol II]

SHALIT: The thing about Kate is that she actually has a good sense of self-assuredness.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 18, 2006] Reference

The assuredness and spunk that was so enjoyable before is gone while he is in the desert.    From Wordnik.com.  [REVIEW: The Exile Kiss by George Alec Effinger] Reference

Bashir found handholds with all the assuredness and athleticism of a well-trained climber.    From Wordnik.com.  [Demons Of Air And Darkness]

However, we are working for the future with confidence, with optimism and with assuredness.    From Wordnik.com.  [CUBAN-JAMAICAN FRIENDSHIP RALLY] Reference

This ability indicated that the children had enough self-assuredness to live away from home.    From Wordnik.com.  [Relating to a Spiritual Teacher: Building a Healthy Relationship ��� 1 Cultural Considerations] Reference

What happened to our swagger and our assuredness, that we are the best country in the world?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Health Care Reform: Wake Up America] Reference

He certainly has the wingnut cocky, self-assuredness in anything he says like W and Buchanan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biden Won, Because He Made Forceful Case Against McCain] Reference

His attempt at assuredness was weakened as he almost lost his footing with another rattle of ice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ice Hunt]

Don Kondor let the machine climb and guided it with nonchalant assuredness along the country road.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hard to be a god]

The kind of quiet self-confidence and swagger that comes with a record of accomplishment and assuredness in one's own instinct.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leah Anthony Libresco: Sarah Palin's Gut is Making Me Sick] Reference

Forget the flannel-suited Beltway bureaucrat struggling mightily keep themselves wrapped in a thick blanket of self-assuredness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inside the Bailout: The Public Servants Our Hopes Are Riding On] Reference

It doesn't have the acidic tone of Clinton's current rhetoric, but it does have strength, assuredness, and intelligene underlying it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama On Veep Talk: Clintons Are Trying To "Hoodwink" You] Reference

Senator Mc Cain will also tell us about his cocky self-assuredness in his youth, which prevented him from hearing the ideas of others.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jean Rohe: Why I Spoke Up] Reference

Their valid perception would invalidate our considering this feature to be self-assuredness and our believing it to be a positive quality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Relating to a Spiritual Teacher: Building a Healthy Relationship ��� 8 Sutra-Level Guru-Meditation] Reference