Sentence:  Speakers at a Tipoff Club dinner dealt lavish praise to a group of St. Louis University players who , in the words of Coach John Benington , `` had <WSD>more</WSD> confidence in themselves than I did '' . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  (comparative of `much' used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning greater in size or amount or extent or degree