confiding

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /kənˈfaɪdɪŋ/

Verb

1. present participle of confide#English|confide

Adjective

confiding

1. Having or showing confidence or trust in another person.
2. In confidence; as if with trust.
3. (Birding) Of a bird, allowing the close approach of humans.

Noun

confiding (plural confidings)

1. 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 […]

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