truster

A person who trusts.

Noun

  1. A person who trusts.
    • I would not hear your enemy say so, Nor shall you do mine ear that violence To make it truster of your own report Against yourself. - c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of...
    • 1856, Walt Whitman, “Poem of the Road” [later entitled “Song of the Open Road”] in Leaves of Grass, Boston: Thayer & Eldridge, 1860, p. 324, Habitues of many different countries, habitues of far-distant dwellings,...
    • Giorgio did not really like the Colonel very much, or perhaps he was simply from Piemonte and cared for no one truly; which was understandable in cold people from a border province. Borderers are not trusters and the...

Origin

From trust + -er.

Forms

trusters

Related

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