CONFIDINGLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does confidingly mean? 

• CONFIDINGLY (adverb)
  The adverb CONFIDINGLY has 1 sense:

1. with trust; in a trusting manner

  Familiarity information: CONFIDINGLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONFIDINGLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With trust; in a trusting manner

Synonyms:

confidingly; trustfully; trustingly

Context example:

she looked at her father trustingly

Pertainym:

confiding (willing to entrust personal matters)

 Context examples 

Alleyne, still standing in the stream, glanced down at the graceful pink-and-white figure, the curve of raven-black hair, and the proud, sensitive face which looked up frankly and confidingly at his own.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Everyone was a friend, and she offered kisses to a stranger so confidingly that the most inveterate bachelor relented, and baby-lovers became faithful worshipers.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Then, to complicate the ruin, she cut it down one third, and confidingly sent the poor little romance, like a picked robin, out into the big, busy world to try its fate.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

She missed her mother's help to understand and rule herself, but having been taught where to look, she did her best to find the way and walk in it confidingly.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Believe this heartily, and go to God with all your little cares, and hopes, and sins, and sorrows, as freely and confidingly as you come to your mother.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)