"misconfide" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "mis- + confide",
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      "form": "misconfides",
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        "third-person"
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    {
      "form": "misconfiding",
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    {
      "form": "misconfided",
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      "form": "misconfided",
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        {
          "ref": "1838, Jamaica under the apprenticeship system, page 25",
          "text": "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;",
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          "ref": "1867 August 21, “A Dispensary Election”, in The Medical Press & Circular, volume 2, page 181",
          "text": "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.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1901, Morgan P. Jones, The Chiefs of Cambria: A Welsh Tale of the Eleventh Century, page 124",
          "text": "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.",
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        "To confide in someone who does not deserve such trust."
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          "confide",
          "confide"
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          "trust",
          "trust"
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  "word": "misconfide"
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  "etymology_text": "mis- + confide",
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    {
      "form": "misconfides",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    {
      "form": "misconfiding",
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        "present"
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      "form": "misconfided",
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        {
          "ref": "1838, Jamaica under the apprenticeship system, page 25",
          "text": "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;",
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        },
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