betrustment
English
Etymology
Noun
betrustment (plural betrustments)
- (obsolete) The act of entrusting, or the thing entrusted.
- 1793, Nathaniel Chipman, Sketches of the Principles of Government
- They have found it difficult to distinguish clearly, in the exercise of power, between a personal right, and a mere betrustment.
- 1793, Nathaniel Chipman, Sketches of the Principles of Government