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Definitions for confiding
kənˈfaɪ dɪŋcon·fid·ing
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Princeton's WordNet
confidingadjective
willing to entrust personal matters
"first she was suspicious, then she became confiding"
Wiktionary
confidingadjective
In confidence; as if with trust.
Wikipedia
confiding
The confidant ( or ; feminine: confidante, same pronunciation) is a character in a story whom a protagonist confides in and trusts. Confidants may be other principal characters, characters who command trust by virtue of their position such as doctors or other authority figures, or anonymous confidants with no separate role in the narrative.
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confiding
Confiding refers to the act of sharing personal, sensitive, or private information, feelings or secrets with someone, based on the trust that the information will not be disclosed or misused. It typically implies a certain level of trust and intimacy between the person confiding and the one receiving the information.
Webster Dictionary
Confiding
of Confide
Confidingadjective
that confides; trustful; unsuspicious
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of confiding in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of confiding in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of confiding in a Sentence
Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity.
Franois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon:
Should we feel at times disheartened and discouraged, a confiding thought, a simple movement of heart towards God will renew our powers. Whatever He may demand of us, He will give us at the moment the strength and the courage that we need.
The way you let your hand rest in mine, my bewitching Sweetheart, fills me with happiness. It is the perfection of confiding love. Everything you do, the little unconscious things in particular, charms me and increases my sense of nearness to you, identification with you, till my heart is full to overflowing.
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