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Sunyy Posted 11 years ago
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....and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild,unknown man. Most of the confidences were unsought- frequently I have feigned sleep,preoccupation, or a hostile levity when I realised by some unmistakable sign that an intimete revalation was ùivering on the horizon.

Hey guys can somebody tell me what does confidence mean in the sentence above.
  

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A confidence is a shared secret. We sometimes tell others something 'in confidence, meaning that the other won't share the information. ).

  • A confidence is a shared secret.
  • We sometimes tell others something 'in confidence, meaning that the other won't share the information.
  • ).
  • unknown man' needs either "a" before it or the plural form..
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A confidence is a shared secret. We sometimes tell others something 'in confidence, meaning that the other won't share the information. The following words in your paragraph are misspelled: intimate, revelation, and hovering(?). '...unknown man' needs either "a" before it or the plural form..
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ahh sorry about that I know them but I was writing from my phone and I haven't seen that I've spelt them wrong

Thank you very much for the explanation
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Confidence : Telling a secret with mutual trust. The trust people had in him was not desired or required.

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