confidantly

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English[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Adverb[edit]

confidantly (comparative more confidantly, superlative most confidantly)

  1. (of a rumor or information circulation) Among confidants.
    • 1817, Lady Morgan (Sydney), Sir Thomas Charles Morgan, France, Volume 1
      A story was some time back confidantly circulated in Paris amongst persons of the higher classes, that the minister of police had intercepted, and shown to the king, the correspondence of some members of his family, in which, reports were fabricated […]

Etymology 2[edit]

Adverb[edit]

confidantly (comparative more confidantly, superlative most confidantly)

  1. Misspelling of confidently.
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