reconfide

Verb

reconfide (third-person singular simple present reconfides, present participle reconfiding, simple past and past participle reconfided)

1. To communicate information that was told in confidence to a third person.
   • After this confidence, of which Muriel was very proud, and only condescended, upon gaining express permission, to reconfide it to me, she talked incessantly of the sister that was coming, until “little Maud”—the name she chose for her—became an absolute entity in the household.1857, Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, John Halifax, Gentleman, page 86
   • '“I do not think,” Christine confided afterwards to a friend, who reconfided it to Bertie van Tahn, “that I shall ever be able to touch pâté de foie gras again.1911, Saki, The Chronicles of Clovis, →ISBN
2. To entrust responsibility or authority to someone else.
   • If you confide it to the Secretary of the Treasury, then why go on and reconfide the same power in the President?1893, Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the Fifty-Second Congress, Second Session
   • Is there any simple way by which the Speaker may be relieved of his now dangerous authority and the power reconfided to the representatives of the people ?1898, Cosmopolitan - Volume 24, page 635