in confidence
Meaning
in confidence
Confidentially, privately, off the record.
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Examples
To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.
I don't mind telling you in confidence that I am keeping in fairly close touch with that admirable Italian gentleman.
Things said to a reporter in confidence should be kept in confidence.
Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.
A citizen must be able in confidence to complain to his Government and to provide information, just as he is–and should be–free to confide in the press without fear of reprisal or of being required to reveal or discuss his sources.
In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength.