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confidences

confidences is the plural of confidence.

Meaning of confidence

Noun

confidence (countable and uncountable, plural confidences)

  1. Self-assurance.
    • He entered the ring with confidence.
  2. A feeling of certainty; firm trust or belief; faith.
    • She had confidence it would soon end.
  3. Information held in secret; a piece of information shared but to thence be kept in secret.
    • In the course of these confidences it became quite plain to me I had been represented to the wife of the high dignitary, and goodness knows to how many more people besides, as an exceptional and gifted creature - a piece of good fortune for the Company - a man you don’t get hold of every day.1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 201
  4. (dated) Boldness; presumption.

Questions about confidences

What is confidences the plural of?
Confidences is the plural of confidence.

Words near confidences in the dictionary

  1. confidence tricks
  2. confidence trickster
  3. confidence tricksters
  4. confidence vote
  5. confidence votes
  6. confidences
  7. confidency
  8. confident
  9. confidente
  10. confidentes
  11. confidential

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