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trustful, a.|ˈtrʌstfʊl|
[f. trust n. + -ful 1.]
†1. Trustworthy, trusty, faithful. Obs.
1580Sidney Ps. vii. i, O Lord, my God, Thou art my trustfull stay. 1582Stanyhurst æneis i. (Arb.) 40 His gyde was trustful Achates. 1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 189 The same most trustful witness that tells us when the world began [etc.].
2. Full of or exercising trust; trusting, confiding.
1832[implied in trustfulness]. 1834Lytton Pompeii iii. iv, They went in their trustful thoughts far down the stream of time. 1850Tennyson In Mem. cix, The child would twine A trustful hand, unask'd, in thine. 1897M. Kingsley W. Africa xiv. 311, I am not of a trustful disposition.
Hence ˈtrustfully adv., in a trustful manner.
1846Worcester cites Monthly Rev. 1836R. A. Vaughan Mystics (1860) I. vi. v. 314 note, Sorrow and joy, pain and pleasure, are trustfully accepted as alike coming from the hand of Love. |