distrustless

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

distrust +‎ -less

Adjective[edit]

distrustless (comparative more distrustless, superlative most distrustless)

  1. Free from distrust.
    • a. 1763, William Shenstone, Economy: A Rhapsody, addressed to young poets:
      Poets , ever void
      Of guile, distrustless, scorn the treasured gold

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for distrustless”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)