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Definition of Confides
1. confide [v] - See also: confide
Lexicographical Neighbors of Confides
Literary usage of Confides
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Steuart Macnaghten, Great Britain Court of Chancery, Alexander Gordon, Charles Christopher Pepys Cottenham, Thomas Wilde Truro (1850)
"If he confides to such men, he will be sure to obtain all that, under the
circumstances, it will be possible for him to obtain; all, in short, ..."
2. The Dial edited by Francis Fisher Browne (1908)
"... Klein ingenuously confides to the Preface of bis new book bis own secret: tbat
it was not written by a student of Chicago; tbat its author is too old to ..."
3. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by Sir William Wilson Hunter (1886)
"The Government confides to the management of the Local Fund Boards any assignment
made from the provincial treasury towards the various local interests ..."
4. The Monks of the West, from St. Benedict to St. Bernard by Charles Forbes Montalembert, Aurélien Courson (1872)
"He deposes Wilfrid, and divides his diocese into three new bishoprics, which he
confides to Celtic monks. — Wilfrid appeals to Rome. ..."
5. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1887)
"It is aleo urged that the statute confides to the collector of the Port of San
Francisco the authority to pass upon the question of allowing Jung Ah Lung to ..."
6. Memoirs of Madame de Rémusat. 1802-1808 by Paul Louis Ézienne de Rémusat, John Lillie, Frances Cashel Hoey (1880)
"The Emperor in love—Madame de X . Madame de Damns —The Empress confides in
me—Palace intrigues—Murat is raised to the rank of Prince. ..."
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