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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Distrusting \Dis*trust"ing\, a. That distrusts; suspicious; lacking confidence in -- {Dis*trust"ing*ly}, adv 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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