Both Uses of
confide
in
Wuthering Heights
- She did bring herself, finally, to confess, and to confide in me: there was not a soul else that she might fashion into an adviser.†
Chpt 8 *confide = place trust (in someone) by talking about private things
- She seemed willing to do her best; though she thrust the hearth-brush into the grates in mistake for the poker, and malappropriated several other articles of her craft: but I retired, confiding in her energy for a resting-place against my return.†
Chpt 32confiding = placing trust (in someone) by talking about private things
Definition:
to place trust (in someone) by talking about private things or telling secrets