An intimate, confidential, or trusted friend or adviser; a confidant; an intimate. Obsolete.
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释义 | the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > [noun] > friend > confidant (9) privya1325 An intimate, confidential, or trusted friend or adviser; a confidant; an intimate. Obsolete. secretarya1387 One who is entrusted with private or secret matters; a confidant; one privy to a secret. Obsolete. counsel-keeper1600 one who is entrusted with designs, secrets, etc. by another; a confidant. confident1619 A trusty friend or adherent; one in whom one confides; a confidential friend. secretara1628 = secretary, n.1 1. trustee1641 A person who is trusted, or to whom a particular role or task is entrusted; a person in whom confidence is placed. troutc1661 slang. Originally in the alliterative phrase trueor trusty trout, a confidential friend or servant; so humble trout. Obsolete. confidante1709 A female confidant. confidant1741 ‘A person trusted with private affairs, commonly with affairs of love’ (Johnson). In later use applied somewhat more widely, so as to take the… |
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