Dictionary entry

Distrust

Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

Mistrust has been almost wholly driven out by distrust. T. L. K. Oliphant.