Reconfide
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 To confide to someone new.; To communicate information that was told in confidence to a third person.
"After this confidence, of which Muriel was very proud, and only condescended, upon gaining express permission, to reconfide it to me, she talked incessantly of the sister that was coming, until “little Maud”—the name she chose for her—became an absolute entity in the household."
- 2 To confide to someone new.; To entrust responsibility or authority to someone else.
"If you confide it to the Secretary of the Treasury, then why go on and reconfide the same power in the President?"
Example
More examples"After this confidence, of which Muriel was very proud, and only condescended, upon gaining express permission, to reconfide it to me, she talked incessantly of the sister that was coming, until “little Maud”—the name she chose for her—became an absolute entity in the household."
Etymology
From re- + confide.
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