What is "entrusting"

Usage examples of "entrusting".

So, since you have already bared the location of your latest black site to Donalla, I thought you wouldn't mind entrusting it to me, your partner.

Kindan had the feeling that Jofri was entrusting him with a secret and his eyes grew large.

A good man but not a stupid one, the Emperor sequestered Mantua, entrusting it to an imperial commissioner.

On proceeding to vote, not only the centuries but even the individual voters were unanimous to a man in favour of entrusting P.

If they had found him to be a criminal, why were they entrusting him with a second consulship after he had misused the first?

But they were human men, and he hated the thought of entrusting them with this record of elven civilization.

Sioned had carefully examined the arrangements and while her rational mind told her the system was sound, her senses froze as the raft bumped into a current and she realized she was entrusting her life to a few planks, some rails, and a couple of woven cables.

I heard at least one woman say to another that, having met Kettricken, she would not mind entrusting a son to her to be her page, for she had heard that all children in the Keep were given a chance to learn both numbers and writing.