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Distrust   /dɪstrˈəst/   Listen
noun
distrust  n.  
1.
Doubt of sufficiency, reality, or sincerity; lack 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."
3.
State of being suspected; loss of trust.


verb
distrust  v. t.  (past & past part. distrusted; pres. part. distrusting)  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." "To distrust the justice of your cause." "He that requireth the oath doth distrust that other." "Of all afraid, Distrusting all, a wise, suspicious maid." Note: Mistrust has been almost wholly driven out by distrust.





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"Distrust" Quotes from Famous Books



... our arrival, the mate and the Mowree were to stand "watch and watch," relieving each other every four hours; the crew, as is sometimes customary when lying at an anchor, being allowed to remain all night below. A distrust of the men, however, was, in the present instance, the principal reason for this proceeding. Indeed, it was all but certain, that some kind of attempt would be made at desertion; and therefore, when Jermin's first watch came on at eight bells (midnight)—by which time all was quiet—he mounted ...
— Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas • Herman Melville
... was for me a veritable angel of kindness and tender thought; abandoning herself henceforth to all the inspirations of her heart, and no longer feeling any distrust of me, or perhaps thinking that I deserved some compensation for all my sufferings, she repeatedly confirmed the celestial assurances of love which she had given in public, when she lifted up her voice to ...
— Mauprat • George Sand
... feeling of distrust of this unhappy young man allayed when the party learned, through a boarder of detective instincts, that Mr. Dsol Arcubus was an enthusiast in scientific pursuits, and that the "romance of a poor young man," as shadowed out by him, was no romance ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume V, Number 29, March, 1860 - A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics • Various
... did not believe the boy for he stood at the desk gazing after him with a look of distrust on his face. The lads were no sooner out of the office than a thin, angular gentleman, dusky of face and very black and bright of eye, entered and walked up to ...
— The Boy Scout Camera Club - The Confession of a Photograph • G. Harvey Ralphson
... to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and a man's foes shall be they of his own household." [287:2] These words were now verified with such woeful accuracy that the distrust pervading the domestic circle often imbittered the whole life of the believer. The slave informed against his Christian master; the husband divorced his Christian wife; and children who embraced the gospel were sometimes disinherited by their enraged parents. [287:3] As the followers ...
— The Ancient Church - Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution • W.D. [William Dool] Killen


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