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Definition of Confidingly
1. Adverb. With trust; in a trusting manner. "She looked at her father trustingly"
Partainyms: Confiding, Trustful, Trusting
Antonyms: Distrustfully
Definition of Confidingly
1. Adverb. In a confiding manner; in a matter that confides. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Confidingly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Confidingly
Literary usage of Confidingly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Cyclopedia of Missions: Containing a Comprehensive View of Missionary by Harvey Newcomb (1855)
"Mr. Best and Dr. Ford the former about six months before the latter Mr. and Mrs.
Preston, who had arrived in speaking sweetly and confidingly of her Savior ..."
2. The Words of Jesus by John Ross Macduff (1857)
"... where alone it can confidingly and permanently rest, in the enjoyment of the
Infinite God. ... confidingly ..."
3. Mahometanism Unveiled: An Inquiry in which that Arch-heresy, Its Diffusion by Charles Forster (1829)
"... we may, under the Divine guidance and blessing, confidingly reckon upon opposite
consequences. From what they see to be just, and fair, and true, ..."
4. The Mind and Words of Jesus by John Ross Macduff (1878)
"magnet of the heart reposing, where alone it can confidingly and permanently
rest, in the enjoyment of the Infinite God. ..."
5. God in Christ: Three Discourses, Delivered at New Haven, Cambridge, and by Horace Bushnell (1852)
"On which account, the greatest caution is needed, that, while we use them,
confidingly, as vehicles, we never allow them to impose upon us anything of their ..."
6. My Novel; Or Varieties in English Life by Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1856)
"She raised her eyes to his— looked at him long—and then leant her head confidingly
on his strong young shoulder. CHAPTER VII. AT noon that same day, ..."
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