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Webster 1913 Edition
Confiding
Con-fid′ing
,Adj.
That confides; trustful; unsuspicious.
– Con-fid′ing-ly
, adv.
Con-fid′ing-ness
, Noun.
Definition 2024
confiding
confiding
English
Verb
confiding
- present participle of confide
Adjective
confiding (comparative more confiding, superlative most confiding)
- In confidence; as if with trust.
Derived terms
Noun
confiding (plural confidings)
- The telling of something in confidence.
- 1841, Absalom Peters, Selah B. Treat, The American Eclectic (volume 1, page 141)
- 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 […]
- 1841, Absalom Peters, Selah B. Treat, The American Eclectic (volume 1, page 141)