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▪ I. trusting, vbl. n.|ˈtrʌstɪŋ| [f. trust v. + -ing1.] The action of the verb trust.
c1440Jacob's Well 288 Trustynge settyth a mannys herte faste in goodnes. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 8 So moche trustynge in the cerimonyes of theyr lawe. 1573Tusser Husb. (1878) 106 Ill huswife..Through trusting of others hath this for hir fees. 1607Hieron Wks. I. 301 There should be..a trusting to Him, an expecting saluation by His meanes. a1771Gray Dante 17 Betray'd By trusting, and by Treachery slain. 1855Singleton Virgil I. 22 There is no safe trusting to the bank. ▪ II. ˈtrusting, ppl. a. [f. as prec. + -ing2.] That trusts: see the verb.
c1450[implied in trustingly]. 1545Elyot, Fretus, of fruor, trustyng. 1693Humours Town 27 Believing Vintners, Tailors, Sempstresses, and the rest of the trusting Shopkeepers. 1707Prior Sat. Poets 75 You've no Friend left, but trusting Landlady. 1790H. More Relig. Fash. World (1791) 108 Unsuspecting goodness, and trusting honesty. 1816Byron Parisina v, She must lay her conscious head A husband's trusting heart beside. 1866G. Macdonald Ann. Q. Neighb. xxviii, He was of a kindly, gentle, trusting nature. Hence ˈtrustingly adv., in a trusting manner; ˈtrustingness, the quality of being trusting or trustful; trustfulness.
c1450tr. De Imitatione iii. viii. 75 He..lasse *trustingly thynkyth or felvth of me þan it behoueþ. 1849Fraser's Mag. XL. 645 Most firmly and trustingly do I believe. 1883C. F. Woolson For the Major iv, The person one loves becomes..trustingly dependent like a..child, upon one's..care.
1820L. Hunt Indicator No. 49 (1822) I. 386 Clearness of blood, freshness of perception, and *trustingness of heart. 1852Thackeray Esmond iii. viii, Sure there is no bound to the trustingness of women. |