In a confident manner; with confidence; with strong assurance; positively.

Very sure of something; positive. / Self-assured, self-reliant, sure of oneself. / (obsolete, in negative sense) Forward, impudent.

Obsolete form of confidant.

Self-assurance. / A feeling of certainty; firm trust or belief; faith. / Information held in secret; a piece of information shared but to thence be kept in secret. / (dated) Boldness; presumption.

A person in whom one can confide or share one's secrets: a friend.

simple past tense and past participle of confide

(intransitive, now rare) To trust, have faith (in). / (transitive, dated) To entrust (something) to the responsibility of someone.

Able to be entrusted with secrets, or private information. / Able to keep silent concerning other's secrets, or private information.

present participle of confide

Having or showing confidence or trust in another person. / In confidence; as if with trust. / (Birding) Of a bird, allowing the close approach of humans.