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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Distrust \Dis*trust"\, n. 1. Doubt of sufficiency, reality, or sincerity; want of confidence, faith, or reliance; as distrust of one's power, authority, will purposes, schemes, etc 2. Suspicion of evil designs. Alienation and distrust . . . are the growth of false principles. --D. Webster. 3. State of being suspected; loss of trust. --Milton. 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: distrust n 1: doubt about someone's honesty [syn: {misgiving}, {mistrust}, {suspicion}] 2: the trait of not trusting others [syn: {distrustfulness}, {mistrust}] [ant: {trust}] v 1: regard as untrustworthy; regard with suspicion; have no faith or confidence in [syn: {mistrust}, {suspect}] [ant: {trust}] 2: suspect to be false; "I distrust that man" [syn: {suspect}, {doubt}]
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