confidant
noun
- character in a story that a protagonist confides in and trusts
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈkɑn.fɪ.dɑnt/ / /ˌkɒn.fɪˈdænt/ / /ˈkɒn.fɪˌdænt/
noun
Etymology: Etymology tree French confidentbor. English confidant Borrowed from French confident.
- A person in whom one can confide or share one's secrets: a friend.
“Heaven made you love me for no other end, / But to become my confidant and friend: / As such, I keep no secret from your sight, […]”
“One in thought and purpose, linked by the necessity of combating one hostile fate, a power antagonistic ever, — a power we lived to evade, — we had no confidants save ourselves.”