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con·fi·dante

(kŏn′fĭ-dănt′, -dänt′, kŏn′fĭ-dănt′, -dänt′)

A confidant, especially one who is a woman.

[French confidente, feminine of confident, confidant; see confidant.]

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confidante

(ˌkɒnfɪˈdænt; ˈkɒnfɪˌdænt)

a person, esp a woman, to whom private matters are confided

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con•fi•dante

(ˌkɒn fɪˈdænt, -ˈdɑnt, ˈkɒn fɪˌdænt, -ˌdɑnt)

n.

a woman to whom secrets are confided or with whom private matters and problems are discussed.

[1700–10; < French confidente]

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Noun

confidante - a female confidant

confidant, intimate - someone to whom private matters are confided

confidante

noun

1. One in whom secrets are confided:

confessor, confidant, repository.

2. A person whom one knows well, likes, and trusts:

amigo, brother, chum, confidant, familiar, friend, intimate, mate, pal.

Informal: bud, buddy.

Slang: sidekick.

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confiant

confidante

[ˌkɒnfɪˈdænt] N → confidenta f

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confidante

[ˌkɒnfɪˈdænt] n → confidente f

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

confidante

n → Vertraute f

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confidante

[ˌkɒnfɪˈdænt] n → confidente f

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Miss Pinkerton would have tried to check this blind devotion very likely, had she been Amelia's confidante; but not with much success, depend upon it.

She had but this subject, of course, to think about; and Miss Saltire was too cold for a confidante, and she couldn't bring her mind to tell Miss Swartz, the woolly-haired young heiress from St.

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The king will grant it very readily, and the knight will courteously kiss his hands for the favour done to him; and that night he will take leave of his lady the princess at the grating of the chamber where she sleeps, which looks upon a garden, and at which he has already many times conversed with her, the go-between and confidante in the matter being a damsel much trusted by the princess.

But the mischief is that until peace is made and you come into the peaceful enjoyment of your kingdom, the poor squire is famishing as far as rewards go, unless it be that the confidante damsel that is to be his wife comes with the princess, and that with her he tides over his bad luck until Heaven otherwise orders things; for his master, I suppose, may as well give her to him at once for a lawful wife."

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"I know I shall always be my daughters' first confidante, and that if Nicholas, with his impulsive nature, does get into mischief (a boy can't help it), he will all the same never be like those Petersburg young men."

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Mrs Honour was likewise despatched with Mrs Etoff on the same errand of pleasure; and thus her own house was left free for the safe reception of Mr Jones, with whom she promised herself two or three hours of uninterrupted conversation after her return from the place where she dined, which was at a friend's house in a pretty distant part of the town, near her old place of assignation, where she had engaged herself before she was well apprized of the revolution that had happened in the mind and morals of her late confidante.

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From this time the subject was never revived by Elinor, and when entered on by Lucy, who seldom missed an opportunity of introducing it, and was particularly careful to inform her confidante, of her happiness whenever she received a letter from Edward, it was treated by the former with calmness and caution, and dismissed as soon as civility would allow; for she felt such conversations to be an indulgence which Lucy did not deserve, and which were dangerous to herself.

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Jane's delicate sense of honour would not allow her to speak to Elizabeth privately of what Lydia had let fall; Elizabeth was glad of it; -- till it appeared whether her inquiries would receive any satisfaction, she had rather be without a confidante.

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