confidences

It is an approach unlikely to persuade the large numbers of gay and bisexuals yet to emerge from the closet to do so, or to win confidences from those who don't like sharing personal information with people they don't know.

Gay statistics: Not everyone wants to talk about their sex life on the doorstep Mark Townsend 2010

Let them know that the God of heaven takes notice of the vain confidences with which they support themselves

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721

It is here spoken of as one of their vain confidences, which they relied much upon, but should be deceived in, for it would not serve so much as to give them notice of the judgments coming, much less to guard against them.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721

He takes them off from their vain confidences by quoting precedents.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721

Or they shall be deceived by those vain confidences with which they have deceived themselves.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721

Her collages, too, employ what might be called confidences, personal materials such as wartime letters typed to her parents on onionskin paper and medical documents that belonged to her father.

Mixed Media 2007

Such superficial confidences, that is to say, as he finds satisfactory.

A Modern Utopia Herbert George 2006

Such superficial confidences, that is to say, as he finds satisfactory.

A Modern Utopia 1906

Jewdwine's attitude to Rickman and his confidences was the result of a change in the attitude of _The Museion_ and its proprietors.

The Divine Fire May Sinclair 1904

The person who was Monroe's companion and the recipient of his confidences was a young woman who was an inmate of his house for the present month of September.

A Christmas Accident and Other Stories Annie Eliot Trumbull 1903