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From French confident.

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confidant (plural confidants)

  1. A person in whom one can confide or share one's secrets: a friend.
    Hyponym: confidante
    • 1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe, William Miller, published 1808, page 223:
      Heaven made you love me for no other end, / But to become my confidant and friend: / As such, I keep no secret from your sight, […]
    • 1895, Kenneth Graham, The Golden Age, London, page 5:
      One in thought and purpose, linked by the necessity of combating one hostile fate, a power antagonistic ever, - a power we lived to evade, - we had no confidants save ourselves.
    • 2023 September 30, Victoria Bekiempis, “‘Dark’ donations, free love and the fall: the Sam Bankman-Fried trial is here”, in The Guardian[1], →ISSN:
      Bankman-Fried’s confidants were along for the ride. At his side was Caroline Ellison, Alameda’s CEO and his on-again, off-again lover.

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Verb

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cōnfīdant

  1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of cōnfīdō