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reconfides

reconfides is the third-person singular simple present indicative of reconfide.

Meaning of 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
  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

Questions about reconfides

What is reconfides the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Reconfides is the third-person singular simple present indicative of reconfide.

Words near reconfides in the dictionary

  1. reconfessed
  2. reconfesses
  3. reconfessing
  4. reconfide
  5. reconfided
  6. reconfides
  7. reconfiding
  8. reconfigurabilities
  9. reconfigurability
  10. reconfigurable
  11. reconfigurably

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