trustlessadj.

?1550 L. Ridley Expos. Epist. St. Paule to Philippians iv. sig. K.iv^v Let vs seke first his kyngdom and his iustice and god wyll gyue vs all necessaryes without our trustles carefulnes.

1598 B. Yong tr. J. de Montemayor Diana 114 I was..so trustles and misconceiuing of my selfe, that I thought [etc.].

1619 J. Sempill Sacrilege Sacredly Handled 81 Trustles Thomas must first put his finger in his side, and then beleeue.

1796 Monthly Mag. Oct. 732/1 Trustless Fear, and dull-ey'd doubt controul.

1840 E. Cook Melaia (new ed.) 181 I've learnt to look With trustless eye on all and each.

1882 J. Walker Descr. Jaunt to Auld Reekie 27 This trustless mammon-serving age.

1907 Outing July 423/1 He told me to keep on with him, flattering my endurance (with a trustless glance through the dark at my weak stomach).

1966 N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 37/2 Lizzie's trustless mixed marriage to Joe Thompson..is still an idealistic marriage of two thinking people.

2010 R. P. Evans Promise Me 76 I was feeling anything but festive, anything but believing. I was trustless of life and men.

1554 J. Proctor Hist. Wyates Rebellion sig. B.viii The lorde Aburgaueny and the shireff..suspectinge in theyr bande..some suche to be, vpon trust of whose trustles and britell ayde, it were no good pollicie to aduenture farre.

1577 H. Rhodes Bk. Nurture (new ed.) sig. Dvii^v To tatche ech trustlesse traytor see, thou faythfull doe remayne.

1578 T. Proctor Gorgious Gallery sig. B ij A sternles ship amidst the trustles Seaes.

1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. ii. xii. 330 A trustles and not to be-beleeved voyce.

1688–9 Lady Russell Lett. (1819) II. 18 An unkind and trustless world it has been to us.

1750 Empty Purse 8 Where is Charity, or Friendship now? This, this as trustless as the feeble Reed.

1797 A. Seward Lett. (1811) IV. 356 A melancholy instance of the trustless flattery of youth and prosperity.

1828 E. Irving Last Days 81 Every juvenile delinquent,..every trustless servant.

1858 H. Spencer Ess. 1st Ser. 308 We are constantly obliged to act out our inferences, trustless as they may be.

1907 Pearson's Mag. Feb. 153/2 It is..dangerous..to build a great design on the trustless foundation of such a conceited, treacherous sot.

1968 A. Lorde Family Resemblance in First Cities My sister has my hair my mouth my eyes..And I presume her trustless as a stone.

2010 Vallejo (Calif.) Times Herald (Nexis) 25 Mar. Aren't you sick of this trustless ‘trust me’ government?

1828 E. Irving Last Days iv. 86 The trustlessness of apprentices and of domestic servants.

a1854 Ld. Cockburn Memorials (1856) v. 324 Disclosing the trustlessness of town councils..in their protected abuse of power.

1909 R. Law Tests of Life ix. 178 The sin and folly, the trustlessness and ingratitude of his children.

2004 A. Hollinghurst Line of Beauty 354 This was what he looked for, a clarified antipathy, a somehow reassuring trustlessness.