mistrust
Lack of trust or confidence; distrust, untrust.
Noun
- Lack of trust or confidence; distrust, untrust.
Origin
From Middle English mistrust; equivalent to mis- + trust.
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- To have no confidence in (something or someone).
- The Britans marching out againſt them, and miſtruſting thir own power, ſend to Germanus and his Collegue, repoſing more in the ſpiritual ſtrength of thoſe two men, than in thir own thouſands arm’d. - 1670, John Milton,...
- He mistrusted my youth, my common-sense, and my seamanship, and made a point of showing it in a hundred little ways. - 1898 September, Joseph Conrad, “Youth: a Narrative”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume...
- To be wary, suspicious or doubtful of (something or someone).
- It is most strange to report what outragious acts […] haue beene committed […] by women especially, that will runne after their husbands into all places, all companies, as Iouianus Pontanus wife did by him, follow him...
- The innocent beauty of her face was not as innocent to me as it had been; I mistrusted the natural grace and charm of her manner […] - 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, “I Look about Me, and Make a Discovery”,...
- It was the Earls Court installation on the Piccadilly tube, opened on October 4, 1911, which really began the successful career of the escalator in this country. At first the public mistrusted it, and a wooden-legged...
- To suspect, to imagine or suppose (something) to be the case.
- […] I propheſie, that many a thouſand, Which now miſtruſt no parcell of my feare, And many an old mans ſighe, and many a Widdowes, And many an Orphans water-ſtanding-eye, Men for their Sonnes, Wiues for their Husbands,...
- As soon as it was dark enough to conceal our Flight, we assembl’d together, and took a considerable Quantity of Muslins and Callicoes, and hung them upon the Bushes, that the Spies, who we knew watch’d us, might not any...
- Those who had known the circumstances of her discovery, had gradually come to look upon her as the child of those who treasured her as if she had been their own; and the playmates of her childhood days had never...
- To be suspicious.
- She wuz soft in her complexion, her lips, her cheeks, her hands, and as I mistrusted at that first minute, and found out afterwards, soft in her head too. - 1887, Marietta Holley, chapter 2, in Samantha at Saratoga,...
- And yes, she has long mistrusted That a cider apple tree In bearing there to-day is hers, Or at least may be. - 1916, Robert Frost, “A Girl’s Garden”, in Mountain Interval, New York: Henry Holt & Co, page 61:
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