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confidante

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con·fi·dante  (knf-dnt, -dänt, knf-dnt, -dänt)
n.
1. A woman to whom secrets or private matters are disclosed.
2. A woman 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 confidente, feminine of confident, confidant; see confidant.]

confidante [ˌkɒnfɪˈdænt ˈkɒnfɪˌdænt]
n
a person, esp a woman, to whom private matters are confided
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.confidante - a female confidant
confidant, intimate - someone to whom private matters are confided
Translations
confidante [ˌkɒnfɪˈdænt] Nconfidenta f
confidante [ˌkɒnfɪˈdænt] nconfidente f
confidante
nVertraute f
confidante [ˌkɒnfɪˈdænt] nconfidente f
confidante [ˌkɒnfɪˈdænt] nconfidente f


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She had little Laura Martin home for the holidays; and my belief is, she made a confidante of her, and promised that Laura should come and live with her when she was married, and gave Laura a great deal of information regarding the passion of love, which must have been singularly useful and novel to that little person.
I know I shall always be my daughters' first confidante, and that if Nicholas, with his impulsive nature, does get into mischief (a boy can't help it), he will all the same never be like those Petersburg young men.
From this time the subject was never revived by Elinor, and when entered on by Lucy, who seldom missed an opportunity of introducing it, and was particularly careful to inform her confidante, of her happiness whenever she received a letter from Edward, it was treated by the former with calmness and caution, and dismissed as soon as civility would allow; for she felt such conversations to be an indulgence which Lucy did not deserve, and which were dangerous to herself.
 
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