confiding
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confiding
- /kənˈfaɪdɪŋ/
Rhymes with -aɪdɪŋ
Where it comes from
By surface analysis, confide + -ing.
verb
- present participle and gerund of confide
adjective more confiding · most confiding
- Having or showing confidence or trust in another person. Effingham was by nature indolent, confiding, and, at times, impetuous and indiscreet; but Marmaduke was uniformly equable, penetrating, and full of activity and enterprise.
- In confidence; as if with trust. Sir, they must surely entertain a higher opinion of the credulity of this house, than -- even their recent experience can justify, if they think that their confiding talent will be carried to this length.
- Of a bird, allowing the close approach of humans.
noun confidings
- The telling of something in confidence. We see Washington by the fireside, upon the farm, amid the interchanges of friendship and ordinary confidings, and as a citizen, as well as in the sphere of military contest, in the senate, or as a diplomatist[…]
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