[f. CONFIDE v. + -ING2.]
1. That confides or reposes confidence; trustful.
1829. Southey, O. Newman, ix. The modest, meek, confiding gentleness.
1848. Thackeray, Van. Fair (L.). He had a confiding wife, and he treated her as confiding wives only are treated.
1848. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., I. 209. Amidst the acclamations and joyful tears of a too confiding people.
† 2. Trusty, trustworthy; = CONFIDENT 6. Obs.
1645. King’s Cabinet Opened, in Select. Harl. Misc. (1793), 361. That power military and civil might be put into confiding hands.
1664. Dryden, Rival Ladies, V. i. Rod. These, Pedro, Are your confiding Men. 2 Serv. I think ’em still so.
1692. Wagstaffe, Vind. Carol., iv. 48. That the Tower may be put into confiding hands.
