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CONFIDING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Willing to entrust personal matters
Example:
first she was suspicious, then she became confiding
Classified under:
Similar:
trustful; trusting (inclined to believe or confide readily; full of trust)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb confide
Context examples:
The letter went very soon, however, and was promptly answered, for Amy was homesick, and confessed it in the most delightfully confiding manner.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I further proposed to interest Mr. Micawber in Mr. Peggotty, by confiding so much of Mr. Peggotty's story to him as I might feel justified in relating, or might think expedient; and to endeavour to bring each of them to bear upon the other, for the common advantage.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
They are not so wild and handsome, but they seem happy, confiding little things.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Also a basket hung over the back of a chair, in which he vainly tried to hoist his too confiding sister, who, with feminine devotion, allowed her little head to be bumped till rescued, when the young inventor indignantly remarked, Why, Marmar, dat's my lellywaiter, and me's trying to pull her up.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
And three times a day, Jo smiled at her Fritz from the head of a long table lined on either side with rows of happy young faces, which all turned to her with affectionate eyes, confiding words, and grateful hearts, full of love for 'Mother Bhaer'.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Like a confiding child, she asked no questions, but left everything to God and nature, Father and Mother of us all, feeling sure that they, and they only, could teach and strengthen heart and spirit for this life and the life to come.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
And was so touched and pleased by that confiding little kiss that all his crustiness vanished, and he just set her on his knee, and laid his wrinkled cheek against her rosy one, feeling as if he had got his own little granddaughter back again.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
