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trustful

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. trusting or willing to trust.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Trustful \Trust"ful\, a. Full of trust; trusting. Worthy of trust; faithful; trusty; trustworthy. [1913 Webster] -- Trust"ful*ly ,adv. -- Trust"ful*ness , n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, "trustworthy," from trust (n.) + -ful . Meaning "trusting" attested from 1832. Related: Trustfully , trustfulness .

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. inclined to believe or confide readily; full of trust; "great brown eye, true and trustful"- Nordhoff & Hall [syn: trusting ] [ant: distrustful ]

Usage examples of trustful.

World War broke down many of the inhibitions of violence and bloodshed that had been built up during the progressive years of the nineteenth century and an accumulating number of intelligent, restless unemployed men, in a new world of motor-cars, telephones, plate-glass shop windows, unbarred country houses and trustful social habits, found themselves faced with illegal opportunities far more attractive than any legal behaviour-system now afforded them.

How many a timorous and trustful mother is persuaded that the child of her affection will escape the dangers of the world by taking refuge in the cloister.

Much was the ridicule heaped upon the hopeful, trustful ones, who declared and repeatedly asseverated to the contrary.

My heart in variably cleaved to the master's, in preference to Cath erine's side---with reason, I imagined, for he was kind, and trustful, and honourable.

She put her nose up to him in a friendly, trustful way, while he rubbed it gently.