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Confiding vs Confining - What's the difference?

confiding | confining |

As verbs the difference between confiding and confining

is that confiding is present participle of lang=en while confining is present participle of lang=en.

As an adjective confiding

is in confidence; as if with trust.

As a noun confiding

is the telling of something in confidence.

confiding

English

Verb

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    • 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

    confining

    English

    Verb

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