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Confiding

//kənˈfaɪdɪŋ// adj, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    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."

  2. 2
    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."

  3. 3
    Of a bird, allowing the close approach of humans.
Adjective
  1. 1
    willing to entrust personal matters wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    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[…]"

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of confide form-of, gerund, participle, present

Etymology

Etymology 1

By surface analysis, confide + -ing.

Etymology 2

By surface analysis, confide + -ing.

Etymology 3

By surface analysis, confide + -ing.

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