confiding

• IPA^(key): /kənˈfaɪdɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -aɪdɪŋ

confiding

1. present participle of confide

confiding (comparative more confiding, superlative most confiding)

1. Having or showing confidence or trust in another person.
2. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) In confidence; as if with trust.
3. (Birding) Of a bird, allowing the close approach of humans.

• confidingly

confiding (plural confidings)

1. The telling of something in confidence.
   • 1841, Absalom Peters, ‎Selah B. Treat, The American Eclectic (volume 1, page 141)

     We see Washington by the fireside, upon the farm, amid the interchanges of friendship and ordinary confidings, and as a citizen, as well as in the sphere of military contest, in the senate, or as a diplomatist […]