misconfide

present singular third person misconfides · participle present misconfiding · participle past misconfided · past misconfided

1. To confide in someone who does not deserve such trust.

   Oh, happy he who wins a bride, And she who doth not misconfide; Theirs not a life in desert wide, But comfort, joy and fame.

   1901, Morgan P. Jones, The Chiefs of Cambria: A Welsh Tale of the Eleventh Century, page 124

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   Though nothing can be more illegal than misconfiding to the gaoler, by the second clause of the act relating to the management of gaols—the 5th and 6th William IV,— a power which is taken from the local magistrates themselves by the Abolition Act, namely, that of punishing the apprentices; yet a still more arbitrary and unjust authority is given by it to one local magistrate, namely, to treat a repeated breach of these gaol regulations (laid down by themselves, and subject to no approval to render them legal) as a felony;

   1838, Jamaica under the apprenticeship system, page 25

   An effort, so scandalous to the system of representative guardians, to pervert the trust which has been misconfided to them, would, in our opinion, fully justify the Poor-law Commissioners in refusing their assent to the election.

   1867 August 21, “A Dispensary Election”, in The Medical Press & Circular, volume 2, page 181