mistrustless

English

Etymology

From mistrust +‎ -less.

Adjective

mistrustless (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Without mistrust or suspicion; trusting, unsuspecting. [16th–20th c.]
   • 1634, William Wood, “Of the Beasts that Live on the Land”, in New Englands Prospect. A True, Lively, and Experimentall Description of that Part of America, Commonly Called New England; […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes, for Iohn Bellamie, […], →OCLC, 1st part, page 23:

     [T]he Geeſe ſeeing this counterfet Gooſe [the ounce), approach nigh to viſit him, vvho with a ſuddaine jerke apprehends his miſtruſtleſſe prey.

   • 1770, [Oliver] Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, a Poem, London: […] W[illiam] Griffin, […], →OCLC:

     The ſwain miſtruſtleſs of his ſmutted face, / While ſecret laughter tittered round the place […]