Confidante vs Confide - What's the difference?
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A female confidant
A type of settee.
*1982 , (TC Boyle), Water Music , Penguin 2006, p. 20:
*:Meanwhile, Sally peels herself from the stage's only prop – a green-velvet confidante – and staggers off into the wings.
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To trust, have faith (in ).
* 1796 , Matthew Lewis, The Monk , Folio Society 1985, p. 269:
* 1818 , Mary Shelley, Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus , Everyman's Library 1973, p. 10:
* Byron
(dated) To entrust (something) to the responsibility of someone.
To take (someone) into one's confidence, to speak in secret with. ( + in )
(intransitive) To say (something) in confidence.
Confide is a related term of confidante.
As a noun confidante
is a female confidant.As a verb confide is
to trust, have faith (in).confidante
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Noun
(en noun)confide
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Verb
(en-verb)- "Be calm, lovely Antonia!" he replied; "no danger in near you: confide in my protection."
- "I shall do nothing rashly: you know me sufficiently to confide in my prudence and consideration whenever the safety of others is committed to my care."
- In thy protection I confide .
- I confide this mission to you alone.
- I could no longer keep this secret alone; I decided to confide in my brother.
- After several drinks, I confided my problems to the barman.
- She confided that her marriage had been in trouble for some time.
