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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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307 words match “TRUST”

DISTRUSTFUL a. 2 definitions

Not confident; diffident; wanting confidence or thrust; modest; as, distrustful of ourselves, of one's powers. Distrustful sense with modest caution speaks. Pope.

That distrusts; suspicious; lacking confidence in. -- Dis*trust"ing*ly, adv.

DISTRUSTLESS a.

Free from distrust. Shenstone.

To deliver (something) to another in trust; to deliver to (another) something in trust; to commit or surrender (something) to another with a certain confidence regarding his care, use, or disposal of it; as, to intrust a servant with one's money or intrust money or goods to a servant.

MISTRUST n. 3 definitions

Want of confidence or trust; suspicion; distrust. Milton.

One who mistrusts.

Having or causing mistrust, suspicions, or forebodings. Their light blown out in some mistrustful wood. Shak. -- Mis*trust"ful*ly, adv. -- Mis*trust"ful*ness, n.

MISTRUSTINGLY adv.

With distrust or suspicion.

MISTRUSTLESS a.

Having no mistrust or suspicion. The swain mistrustless of his smutted face. Goldsmith.

OVERTRUST v. 2 definitions

To trust too much. Bp. Hall.

SELF-DISTRUST n.

Want of confidence in one' self; diffidence.

Faith in one's self; self-reliance.

Distrust. [Obs.] Chaucer.

UNTRUSTFUL a. 2 definitions

Not trustful or trusting.

Failing or diminishing trust; want of trust or confidence; distrust. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To renounce; to relinquish; -- said of authority, a trust, duty, right, etc. He abdicates all right to be his own governor. Burke. The understanding abdicates its functions. Froude.

The act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder; commonly the voluntary renunciation of sovereign power; as, abdication of the throne, government, power, authority.

To believe; to credit; to put trust in. The version of early Roman history which was accredited in the fifth century. Sir G. C. Lewis. He accredited and repeated stories of apparitions and witchcraft. Southey.

To consign or intrust to the care of another, as agent or factor; as, the ship was addressed to a merchant in Baltimore. To address one's self to. (a) To prepare one's self for; to apply one's self to. (b) To direct one's speech or discourse to.