Crossword clues for confidant
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Confidant \Con`fi*dant"\; 277), n. masc., Confidante \Con`fi*dante"\ (?; 277), n. fem.[F. confident, confidente, formerly also spelt confidant, confidante. See Confide, and cf. Confident.] One to whom secrets, especially those relating to affairs of love, are confided or intrusted; a confidential or bosom friend.
You love me for no other end
Than to become my confidant and friend;
As such I keep no secret from your sight.
--Dryden.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, confident, "(male) person trusted with private affairs," from French confident (16c.), from Italian confidente "a trusty friend," literally "confident, trusty," from Latin confidentem (nominative confidens), present participle of confidere "to trust, confide" (see confidence). The spelling with -a- came to predominate 18c. and might reflect the French pronunciation.
Wiktionary
n. a person in whom one can confide or share one's secrets: a friend
WordNet
n. someone to whom private matters are confided [syn: intimate]
Wikipedia
The confidant ( or ; feminine: confidante, same pronunciation) is a character in a story that a protagonist confides in and trusts. Confidants may be other principal characters, characters who command trust by virtue of their position such as doctors or other authority figures, or anonymous confidants with no separate role in the narrative.
Usage examples of "confidant".
But instead of arresting the bin Laden confidant, the agents suggested he return to the U.
He was also their friend and confidant, as well as the man the captain of the Bucephalas trusted to command his boarding parties.
At fifty-two, Bandar, a close confidant of both Bushes, is a man of profound complexities, a cheery, educated man of enormous appetites.
Paul Castellano reassigned him to the crew of Tommy Bilotti, an unrivaled Castellano confidant.
Tebris and Cydippe had eagerly accepted Aglaia as a friend and confidant.
Hence, Dagwood, like so many puffed-up persons of his type, had made Fenwick one of his real confidants and the two were on the most friendly terms.
He had been her confidant about the desperate John Macnab, and from her he must learn the tale of her victory.
Dweller eye-twinkling - humans had been adjudged as acceptable confidants for the Dwellers of Nasqueron in the system of Ulubis, their presence mostly tolerated, their company usually accepted, their safety almost always guaranteed and their attempts to talk to the Dwellers and mine their vast but defiantly imaginatively organised and indexed data shales met with only the most formal of obstructiveness, the lighter forms of derision and the least determinedly obfuscatory strategies.
The archangel-class courier translates in-system with two aboard: Captain Marget Wu, aide to Fleet Admiral Marusyn, and the Jesuit Father Brown, special adviser to Monsignor Lucas Oddi, Undersecretary of Vatican State and confidant of Secretary of State Simon Augustino Cardinal Lourdusamy.
If both these conjectures were true, I thought it possible that the communication the Hermit wished to make might be made yet more willingly to me as a stranger than if he knew who was in reality his confidant.
I did not suppose it would interest anybody, and in the second because I would not have known whom to make a confidant of.
Old Fox, second son of Valdosta, friend to the Doge, brother to the Young Lion, confidant of Prince Manfred.
The case is really of the most delicate nature, and I am impelled to make a confidant of you by the impression you made on me when I first saw you.
One can assume that through a mutually profitable relationship Pike and Broon have become confidants.
She can teach her that wives are not expensive toys, but useful partners, friends, and confidants, who should always keep men under their wholesome influence by their diplomacy, their tact, their common-sense, without bumptiousness.