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Pronunciation: [kˈɒnfɪdˌants] (IPA)

Confidants are individuals trusted with confidential matters and secrets. Other terms that can be used synonymously with confidants are trusted allies, close friends, confidantes, bosom buddies, and faithful companions. These terms refer to people who share a close bond and have a deep understanding of one another. They are people who can listen without judgment, provide advice and support, and keep secrets. In times of need, confidants can offer solace, encouragement, and a listening ear. Having confidants helps to alleviate stress and foster a sense of belonging and connection. Ultimately, a confidant is someone who can be trusted, relied on, and confided in.

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Usage examples for Confidants

Their husbands and fathers make confidants of them-they are allowed to take a part in politics, even in conspiracies; but we poor German women are always oppressed and kept in the background.
"Under a Charm, Vol. III. (of III) A Novel"
E. Werner
She took no counsel, allowed no confidants.
"Rose of Dutcher's Coolly"
Hamlin Garland
The men who succeed are those who make confidants of their wives.
"The Jericho Road"
W. Bion Adkins

Famous quotes with Confidants

  • We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.
    Robert Bulwer-Lytton
  • For those unfamiliar with modern Indian history: the Marxists, already pushy for acquiring as much power in the institutions as they could grab, were handed a near-monopoly on institutional power in India's academic and educational sector by Indira Gandhi ca. 1970. Involved in an intra-Congress power struggle, she needed the help of the Left. Her confidants P.N. Haksar and Nurul Hasan packed the institutions with Marxists, card-carrying or otherwise. When, during the Emergency dictatorship (1975-77), her Communist Party allies threatened to become too powerful, she and her son Sanjay removed them from key political positions but, in a typical instance of politicians' short-sightedness, they left the Marxists? hold on the cultural sector intact. In the good old Soviet tradition, they at once set out to falsify history and propagate their own version through the official textbooks. After coming to power in 1998, the BJP-dominated government has made a half-hearted and not always very competent attempt to effect glasnost (openness, transparency) at least in the history textbooks. This led the Marxists to start a furious hate campaign against the so-called 'saffronization' of history.
    Koenraad Elst
  • There would be dreamers of dreams and seers of visions and hearers of voices; readers of the entrails of beasts and interpreters of the flight of birds; there would be burning bushes and stone tablets on mountain-tops, and inspired words dictated to aged disciples on lonely islands. There would arise special castes of men and women, learned in these sacred matters; and these priestly castes would naturally emphasize the importance of their calling, would hold themselves aloof from the common herd, endowed with special powers and entitled to special privileges. They would interpret the oracles in ways favorable to themselves and their order; they would proclaim themselves friends and confidants of the god, walking with him in the night-time, receiving his messengers and angels, acting as his deputies in forgiving offenses, in dealing punishments and in receiving gifts. They would become makers of laws and moral codes. They would wear special costumes to distinguish them, they would go through elaborate ceremonies to impress their followers, employing all sensuous effects, architecture and sculpture and painting, music and poetry and dancing, candles and incense and bells and gongs.
    Upton Sinclair
  • Long before the party's arrival in power Goebbels had written the famous article in which he pointed out the kinship between National Socialism and Bolshevism. At times he spoke enthusiastically in favor of a peaceful permeation of Bolshevism by Nazism and a German-Russian symbiosis. But to his confidants he always showed how clearly he realized that Communism is at all times simply a path leading to a new system of private property and private capital, and that the classless society is bound to lead to a new class formation with a new grading of incomes.
    Hermann Rauschning

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