Crossword clues for trusting
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Trust \Trust\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trusted; p. pr. & vb. n. Trusting.] [OE. trusten, trosten. See Trust, n.]
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To place confidence in; to rely on, to confide, or repose faith, in; as, we can not trust those who have deceived us.
I will never trust his word after.
--Shak.He that trusts every one without reserve will at last be deceived.
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To give credence to; to believe; to credit.
Trust me, you look well.
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To hope confidently; to believe; -- usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object.
I trust to come unto you, and speak face to face.
--2 John 12.We trustwe have a good conscience.
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to show confidence in a person by intrusting (him) with something.
Whom, with your power and fortune, sir, you trust, Now to suspect is vain.
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To commit, as to one's care; to intrust.
Merchants were not willing to trust precious cargoes to any custody but that of a man-of-war.
--Macaulay. To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment; as, merchants and manufacturers trust their customers annually with goods.
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To risk; to venture confidently.
[Beguiled] by thee to trust thee from my side.
--Milton.
Trusting \Trust"ing\, a. Having or exercising trust; confiding; unsuspecting; trustful. -- Trust"ing*ly, adv.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of trust English)
WordNet
adj. inclined to believe or confide readily; full of trust; "great brown eye, true and trustful"- Nordhoff & Hall [syn: trustful] [ant: distrustful]
tending to trust; "she had an open and trusting nature"
Usage examples of "trusting".
When she feels a surge of negative feelings, it is especially difficult for a woman to speak in a trusting, accepting, and appreciative way.
The Cayman Islands, the Bahamas, and the Netherlands Antilles each provided sophisticated banking services catering to the harried businessman in need of a secure hiding place for funds spirited from under the blind eyes of a trusting partner or the vengeful maw of a wronged spouse.
During the previous year or two his correspondence with this trusted--and trusting-- friend had not been frequent, and Bernard had received little direct news of him.
Paganel, DISTRAIT as usual, was flung several times before he succeeded in bestriding his good steed, but once in the saddle, his inseparable telescope on his shoulder-belt, he held on well enough, keeping his feet fast in the stirrups, and trusting entirely to the sagacity of his beast.
This poor, simple, innocent, trusting creature, so utterly incapable of coming into any true relation with his aspiring mind, his large and strong emotions,--this mere child, all simplicity and goodness, but trivial and shallow as the little babbling brooklet that ran by his window to the river, to lose its insignificant being in the swift torrent he heard rushing over the rocks,--this pretty idol for a weak and kindly and easily satisfied worshipper, was to be enthroned as the queen of his affections, to be adopted as the companion of his labors!
I slipped it into my jacket and went out again, trusting Modred would cover for me when he must.
How simple and trusting he was as he outpoured the prayer of his heart, filled with new longings and love, in bowing before her, as before the highest ideal of all his youthful dreams.
I bid you farewell, Count Ramose, trusting that you who are young and were sorely tempted, will have learned a lesson which cannot be forgotten.
He was also a Catholic convert, whose life had come to be defined by his recusancy, but at this point it was the kind of religion of which Father Garnet would have approved: acquiescing in the status quo, trusting in God to bring about the conversion of England in His own good time.
Research has shown that self-disclosers are more self-content, more adaptive and competent, more perceptive, more extroverted, more trusting and positive towards others than non-disclosing persons.
A tall, intense priest wearing a crimson vestment read from the Gospel, then delivered a sennon about trusting in God and not giving in to despair.
I would never trust another man after Speke, but here I am, trusting you.
But Sweyn, never trusting anyone too fully, had been watching the young Saxon closely and thought his regard of the maid more than a bit harrowed, and now acted swiftly.
Comte de Tournay, and of those other fugitives who were waiting for him and trusting in him.
He meant, of course, that he looked over his earlier works for roads unfollowed, trusting in the persistence of concerns and the renewal of old fascinations to stimulate some new ideas.