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Definition of Confided
1. confide [v] - See also: confide
Lexicographical Neighbors of Confided
Literary usage of Confided
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the Origin, Formation, and Adoption of the Constitution of the by George Ticknor Curtis (1861)
"HAVING now reached that stage in. the process of framing the Constitution at
which certain principles were confided to a committee of detail, ..."
2. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1907)
"contains in the introduction of the subject of the scherzo a very early instance
of ' transformation of themes. ' Felix had confided to Fanny ' that his ..."
3. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1910)
"And so the poet, while he wrought His image in the tide of thought, Deemed it a
glimpse in darkness caught Of light above. confided Another lamb, O Lamb of ..."
4. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"... ness of those to whom they have confided it, and still less have Cory and
Miles, whose incapacity and misconduct were the sole cause of disaster. ..."
5. Diary of the American Revolution: From Newspapers and Original Documents by Frank Moore (1860)
"... this has been privately communicated to most of the royalists in and about
Boston, who can be confided in.' A FEW days since the authority of Portsmouth ..."
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