Confided vs Confiding - What's the difference?
confided | confiding |
(confide)
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.
The telling of something in confidence.
* 1841 , Absalom Peters, ?Selah B. Treat, The American Eclectic (volume 1, page 141)
As verbs the difference between confided and confiding
is that confided is (confide) while confiding is .As an adjective confiding is
in confidence; as if with trust.As a noun confiding is
the telling of something in confidence.confided
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(head)confide
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(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.
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* confidinglyNoun
(en noun)- 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