Confidant: alternatives and connections

One to whom secrets, especially those relating to affairs of love, are confided or intrusted; a confidential or bosom friend.

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A place where things are or may be reposited, or laid up, for safety or preservation; a depository.

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One who keeps, or is intrusted with, secrets.

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One who entertains for another such sentiments of esteem, respect, and affection that he seeks his society aud welfare; a wellwisher; an intimate ass…

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To put faith (in); to repose confidence; to trust; -- usually followed by in; as, the prince confides in his ministers.

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To put faith (in); to repose confidence; to trust; -- usually followed by in; as, the prince confides in his ministers.

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Innermost; inward; internal; deep-seated; hearty.

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