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Word of the Day - Confidant
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confidant
Pronunciation: /ˈkɒnfɪdant/
/ˌkɒnfɪˈdant/
/ˌkɒnfɪˈdɑːnt/
noun (feminine confidante pronounced same)
A person with whom one shares a secret or private matter, trusting them not to repeat it to others: a close confidante of the princess
Origin
Mid 17th century: alteration of confident (as a noun in the same sense in the early 17th century), probably to represent the pronunciation of French confidente ‘having full trust’.
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Corrie was very confident that Joel was her confidant. Years of secrets, told in confidence, had never spread. What she didn’t know was that he wrote a private journal. When he died, she suffered notoriety when his brother published Joel’s works posthumously. Eventually, notoriety became fame, the era of Internet social media, you know. Kardashian who?
