sanguineness

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But it is the next interest rate decision on 9 May that may explain Mr Sunak's sanguineness.

From BBC • Mar. 22, 2024

Anthropologist Lionel Tiger; it explores the possible biological origins of the human sanguineness that underlies feelings of wellbeing, whatever they are called.

From Time Magazine Archive

The question about the Whigs came comically from the man who had just made the Tories swallow Household Suffrage; and Disraeli's sanguineness was ill-founded.

From Prime Ministers and Some Others A Book of Reminiscences by Russell, George William Erskine

One man had died, perhaps half-a-dozen more were invalids, but the rest were strong and hearty: to be sure, we all lacked much of that sanguineness which had animated us hitherto.

From Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal; or, Eighteen Months in the Polar Regions, in Search of Sir John Franklin's Expedition, in the Years 1850-51 by Osborn, Sherard

Their disappointment at the ultimate failure of the book was proportioned, we may suppose, to the sanguineness of their first expectations.

From Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 01 by Moore, Thomas