trustenv.
/ˈtrʌstn/, U.S. /ˈtrəst(ə)n/ In later use English regional (west midlands and south-western).
intransitive. To have faith or confidence in, to rely on; = trust v. 1. Chiefly with to, †in, †on, †upon. Cf. tristen v.In quot. 1683 with to: to give credit (credit n. 9) for. Cf. trust v. 6c.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > hope > confident hope, trust > trust, have confidence in [verb (intransitive)]
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a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1965) Psalms. x. 2 In þe lord I trostne [L. speravi].
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Eph. iii. 12 In whom we han trust and nyȝ comynge, in trustnynge [a1425 L.V. tristenyng; L. confidentia] by the feith of him.
c1390 (c1350) Proprium Sanctorum in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1888) 81 312 He þat wole..beo preysed on þis molde Bi tresur of seluer and of golde, he may not passe to heuene þen, whil he trustneþ vppon hem.
1555 Lydgate's Auncient Hist. Warres betwixte Grecians & Troyans i. vi. sig. D.vi/1 By whose example women may well lere How they shuld faith or trusten on any man.
1683 N. Paris Let. 10 Nov. (Warwickshire Rec. Office MS: CR1618/WA6/43/7) Consarning this last half years Rent I did trusen to it and now I have ocasion for mony.
1861 ‘G. Eliot’ Silas Marner xvi. 289 All as we've got to do is to trusten.
1895 T. Pinnock Black Country Ann. (E.D.D.) If he trespasses on my ground, he knows what he's got to trusten to.
1908 M. P. Willcocks Man of Genius xviii. 297 ‘There's no way out of it, but to go straight on and to trusten,’ said Grylls.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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