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

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

Confidence is said to be infectious, but I can't say that my hopes were very highly excited by Taltavull's sanguineness of success.

From The Recipe for Diamonds by Hyne, Charles John Cutcliffe Wright

His poverty and sanguineness of temper might prompt him to use them.

From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Brown, Charles Brockden