All 4 Uses of
confide
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- Master Lenehan at this made return that he had heard of those nefarious deeds and how, as he heard hereof counted, he had besmirched the lily virtue of a confiding female which was corruption of minors and they all intershowed it too, waxing merry and toasting to his fathership.†
Chpt 14confiding = placing trust (in someone) by talking about private things
- —Curious coincidence, Mr Bloom confided to Stephen unobtrusively.†
Chpt 16 *confided = placed trust (in someone) by talking about private things
- —It beats me, Mr Bloom confided to Stephen, medically I am speaking, how a wretched creature like that from the Lock hospital reeking with disease can be barefaced enough to solicit or how any man in his sober senses, if he values his health in the least.†
Chpt 16
- Besides, though taste latterly had deteriorated to a degree, original music like that, different from the conventional rut, would rapidly have a great vogue as it would be a decided novelty for Dublin's musical world after the usual hackneyed run of catchy tenor solos foisted on a confiding public by Ivan St Austell and Hilton St Just and their genus omne.†
Chpt 16confiding = placing trust (in someone) by talking about private things
Definition:
to place trust (in someone) by talking about private things or telling secrets