[f. as prec. + -NESS.] The state or quality of being confiding; † confidence; trustfulness.
1682. Norris, Hierocles, 71. The very courage & confidingness of knowledge, conduces much to mildness.
1851. D. Coleridge, in H. Coleridge’s Poems, I. 184. His simple and affectionate confidingness.
1882. Besant, All Sorts, 227. Such as would abuse your confidingness.
