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▪ I. unˈtrust, n.
[un-1 12. Cf. wantrust.]
1. Unbelief, distrust. Now rare.
a1225Ancr. R. 332 Þeos two unðeawes, untrust and ouer⁓trust, beoð þes deofles tristren. 1382Wyclif Rom. iv. 20 In the byheeste of God he doutide not with vntrust. 1390Gower Conf. II. 147 This fievere of Jelousie Somdel..groweth of sotie, Of love, and somdiel of untrust. 1421–2Hoccleve Dialog 336 Frendshipes lawe nat worth wer a myte, If þat vntrust vn-to it wer annexid; Vntrust hath many a wight ful sore vexid. c1450Cov. Myst. (Shaks. Soc.) 153 Alas!.. For my grett dowth and fals beleve,..My fals vn⁓trost hath wrought myscheve! 1581Howell Devises M j, Condemde thou art for thine vntruste. 1890J. Pulsford Loyalty to Christ I. 152 We should linger over the words ‘Our Father’, till nothing of doubt, or untrust, remains.
†2. Untrustworthiness. Obs.
1430–40Lydg. Bochas Prologue 429 To shewe thun⁓trust off al worldli thyng. 1563Mirr. Mag. X ii, Of my death let..princes wete The worldes vntrust, that they there⁓by be taught. 1579Hake Newes out of Powles (1872) H iij, Suche is the vntruste that is in man, moe men can speake plausibly in time of good happe,..then [etc.].
▪ II. † unˈtrust, v. Obs.—1
[un-1 14.]
intr. To have no confidence; to be in despair.
a1225Ancr. R. 332 Dred wiðuten hope makeð mon untrusten, and hope wiðute dred makeð ouertrusten. |