All 19 Uses of
confide
in
David Copperfield
- 'But I shall confide in you, just the same, Agnes.†
Chpt 19-21 *confide = place trust (in someone) by talking about private things
- — only that I doubted, even at that pass, if Mrs. Crupp were quite the sort of woman to confide in!†
Chpt 22-24
- We are not going to confide in any such cross people, Jip and I. We mean to bestow our confidence where we like, and to find out our own friends, instead of having them found out for us — don't we, Jip?'†
Chpt 25-27
- My love was so much in my mind and it was so natural to me to confide in Peggotty, when I found her again by my side of an evening with the old set of industrial implements, busily making the tour of my wardrobe, that I imparted to her, in a sufficiently roundabout way, my great secret.†
Chpt 31-33
- When Agnes laid her bonnet on the table, and sat down beside her, I could not but think, looking on her mild eyes and her radiant forehead, how natural it seemed to have her there; how trustfully, although she was so young and inexperienced, my aunt confided in her; how strong she was, indeed, in simple love and truth.†
Chpt 34-36confided = placed trust (in someone) by talking about private things
- She cried at parting, and confided her brother to my friendship as Ham had done.†
Chpt 37-39
- I confided all to my aunt when I got home; and in spite of all she could say to me, went to bed despairing.†
Chpt 37-39
- Remember that I confide in simple love and truth at last.†
Chpt 40-42confide = place trust (in someone) by talking about private things
- I had confided it to my aunt, but to no one else.†
Chpt 40-42confided = placed trust (in someone) by talking about private things
- I looked up to him, I can hardly describe how — as a father, as a guide, as one whose praise was different from all other praise, as one in whom I could have trusted and confided, if I had doubted all the world.†
Chpt 43-45
- 'May I now venture to confide to Mr. T. the purport of my letter?†
Chpt 49-51confide = place trust (in someone) by talking about private things
- 'Or, if confiding anything to friends will be more likely to relieve you, you shall impart it to us, Mr. Micawber,' said Traddles, prudently.†
Chpt 49-51confiding = placing trust (in someone) by talking about private things
- 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.†
Chpt 52-54
- I took Mr. Micawber aside that same night, and confided to him the task of standing between Mr. Peggotty and intelligence of the late catastrophe.†
Chpt 55-57confided = placed trust (in someone) by talking about private things
- She has never confided it to me, but I suspect it.'†
Chpt 58-60
- A sister to whom I have confided so much, aunt, will not be reluctant to confide in me.'†
Chpt 58-60
- A sister to whom I have confided so much, aunt, will not be reluctant to confide in me.'†
Chpt 58-60confide = place trust (in someone) by talking about private things
- 'So loving, so confiding, and so young!†
Chpt 58-60confiding = placing trust (in someone) by talking about private things
- But you were so much better than I, so necessary to me in every boyish hope and disappointment, that to have you to confide in, and rely upon in everything, became a second nature, supplanting for the time the first and greater one of loving you as I do!'†
Chpt 61-62confide = place trust (in someone) by talking about private things
Definitions:
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(1)
(confide) to place trust (in someone) by talking about private things or telling secrets
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely, confide can mean to give trust to someone while giving them something important--such as a responsibility or a valuable item. For example, "I confided the job to her care."