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confidant

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con·fi·dant  (knf-dnt, -dänt, knf-dnt, -dänt)
n.
1. One to whom secrets or private matters are disclosed.
2. A character in a drama or fiction, such as a trusted friend or servant, who serves as a device for revealing the inner thoughts or intentions of a main character.

[French confident, from Italian confidente, from Latin cnfdns, cnfdent-, present participle of cnfdere, to rely on; see confide.]

confidant or fem confidante
Noun
a person to whom private matters are confided [French confident]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.confidantconfidant - someone to whom private matters are confided
confidante - a female confidant
friend - a person you know well and regard with affection and trust; "he was my best friend at the university"
repository, secretary - a person to whom a secret is entrusted

confidant or confidante
noun close friend, familiar, intimate, crony, alter ego, bosom friend

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Ferrars, and the kind of confidant of himself, talked to her a great deal of the parsonage at Delaford, described its deficiencies, and told her what he meant to do himself towards removing them.
Here of course was the very heaven-sent confidant for such an enterprise as mine.
He was a great confidant of Long John Silver, and so the mention of his name leads me on to speak of our ship's cook, Barbecue, as the men called him.
 
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