Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Distrusted"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Distrust \Dis*trust"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Distrusted}; p. pr.
& vb. n. {Distrusting}.] [Cf. {Mistrust}.]
To feel absence of trust in; not to confide in or rely upon;
to deem of questionable sufficiency or reality; to doubt; to
be suspicious of; to mistrust.

Not distrusting my health. --2 Mac. ix.
22.

To distrust the justice of your cause. --Dryden.

He that requireth the oath doth distrust that other.
--Udall.

Of all afraid, Distrusting all, a wise, suspicious
maid. --Collins.

Note: Mistrust has been almost wholly driven out by distrust.
--T. L. K. Oliphant.


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