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Definition of Confidante
1. Noun. A female confidant.
Definition of Confidante
1. Noun. a female confidant ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Confidante
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Confidante
Literary usage of Confidante
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1910)
"THE LILY confidante Lily! lady of the garden! Let me press my lip to thine!
Love must tell its story, Lily! Listen thou to mine. ..."
2. The Works of Tobias Smollett by Tobias George Smollett, William Ernest Henley (1899)
"... and, in our way Home, pays me a sarcastic Compliment—I am met by Miss Williams,
who is maid and confidante of Narcissa—She acquaints me with her Lady's ..."
3. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"Confidant, confidante. The usage books seem to present only a partial picture of
the usage of these words: Fowler 1926 calls confidant masculine and ..."
4. Moral tales for young people by Maria Edgeworth (1806)
"Una's thoughts! The river silently me- " andering!—The rocks ! The woods!—. "
Nature in all her majesty.— Sublime " confidante! sympathising with my su- ..."
5. Little Journeys to Homes of Great Scientists by Elbert Hubbard (1905)
"Huxley's wife was his companion, confidante, comrade, friend. In all the annals
of thinking men I cannot recall another so blest, save John Stuart Mill. ..."
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