confidingness

They combined the confidingness of a child with the poet-passion of heart and of intellect; and in gazing into them it was easy to read _why_ Mrs. Browning wrote.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 Various

The shopkeepers, restaurants, and gambling-houses, with an amiable confidingness peculiar to such people, had trusted the miners to that degree that they themselves were in the same moneyless condition.

The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe

A truly devout Catholic, in her grief she leaned with all a woman's trust and confidingness upon the love and power of Christ, and something of the divine calmness which we associate with the character of the mother of our Lord, and which has been so wonderfully depicted to the eye by some of the older painters, pervaded her spirit.

Adèle Dubois A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick Mrs. William T. Savage

Alone, alone … "So am I," he said, on a gush of confidingness.

Brave New World Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963 1932

He was rather better-looking in the face than she had supposed; and in this light she observed more clearly the rather odd expression he wore about the eyes, a quality of youthful hopefulness, a sort of confidingness: not the look of a brick-thrower, unless you happened to know the facts in the case.

V. V.'s Eyes Henry Sydnor Harrison 1905

He is captivating with his frankness, confidingness, and unexampled naivete!

The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Browning, Elizabeth B 1898

While never failing duly to receive and return Hugh's rather stiff attentions, and while doing superb justice to the repast, Ramsey, with side glances from her large, unconscious eyes emotionally enriched by long auburn lashes, easily and with great zest contemplated her mother's charming complexion, so lily-white and shell pink for a Creole matron, as well as the lovely confidingness of her manner, so childlike yet so wise.

Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi George Washington Cable 1884

To Herder as to everyone else Goethe aired his opinions with the "frank confidingness" which he notes as a trait of his own character, and which gave Herder frequent opportunities for scathing criticism.

The Youth of Goethe Peter Hume Brown 1883

“Oh yes, I should like to learn French,” Newman went on, with democratic confidingness.

The American 1877

-- This confidingness, this complaisance, this showing-the-cards of German HONESTY, is probably the most dangerous and most successful disguise which the

Beyond Good and Evil Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872