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Confided vs Confiding - What's the difference?

confided | confiding |

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

English

Verb

(head)
  • (confide)

  • confide

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To trust, have faith (in ).
  • * 1796 , Matthew Lewis, The Monk , Folio Society 1985, p. 269:
  • "Be calm, lovely Antonia!" he replied; "no danger in near you: confide in my protection."
  • * 1818 , Mary Shelley, Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus , Everyman's Library 1973, p. 10:
  • "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."
  • * Byron
  • In thy protection I confide .
  • (dated) To entrust (something) to the responsibility of someone.
  • I confide this mission to you alone.
  • To take (someone) into one's confidence, to speak in secret with. ( + in )
  • I could no longer keep this secret alone; I decided to confide in my brother.
  • (intransitive) To say (something) in confidence.
  • After several drinks, I confided my problems to the barman.
    She confided that her marriage had been in trouble for some time.

    confiding

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • In confidence; as if with trust.
  • Derived terms

    * confidingly

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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