Definition of "confiding"
adjective
comparative more confiding, superlative most confiding
Having or showing confidence or trust in another person.
Quotations
Effingham was by nature indolent, confiding, and, at times, impetuous and indiscreet; but Marmaduke was uniformly equable, penetrating, and full of activity and enterprise.
1825, James Fenimore Cooper, The Pioneers: Or, the Sources of the Susquehanna, page 41
The telling of something in confidence.
Quotations
We see Washington by the fireside, upon the farm, amid the interchanges of friendship and ordinary confidings, and as a citizen, as well as in the sphere of military contest, in the senate, or as a diplomatist […]
1841, Absalom Peters, Selah B. Treat, The American Eclectic, volume 1, page 141