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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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