Word Meanings - WANTRUST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Failing or diminishing trust; want of trust or confidence; distrust. Chaucer.

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• DIMINISH
  To make smaller by a half step; to make less than minor; as, a diminished seventh. 4. To take away; to subtract. Neither shall ye diminish aught from it. Deut. iv. 2. Diminished column, one whose upper diameter is less than the lower.
• CONFIDENCE
  1. The act of confiding, trusting, or putting faith in; trust; reliance; belief; -- formerly followed by of, now commonly by in. Society is built upon trust, and trust upon confidence of one another's integrity. South. A cheerful confidence in
• TRUSTEE
  A person to whom property is legally committed in trust, to be applied either for the benefit of specified individuals, or for public uses; one who is intrusted with property for the benefit of another; also, a person in whose hands the effects
• TRUSTY
  1. Admitting of being safely trusted; justly deserving confidence; fit to be confided in; trustworthy; reliable. Your trusty and most valiant servitor. Shak. 2. Hence, not liable to fail; strong; firm. His trusty sword he called to his
• DISTRUSTLESS
  Free from distrust. Shenstone.
• TRUST COMPANY
  Any corporation formed for the purpose of acting as trustee. Such companies usually do more or less of a banking business.
• DIMINISHER
  One who, or that which, diminishes anything. Clerke .
• TRUSTLESS
  That may not be trusted; not worthy of trust; unfaithful. -- Trust"less*ness, n.
• TRUSTING
  Having or exercising trust; confiding; unsuspecting; trustful. -- Trust"ing*ly, adv.
• FAILLE
  A soft silk, heavier than a foulard and not glossy.
• DIMINISHABLE
  Capable of being diminished or lessened.
• DIMINISHMENT
  Diminution. Cheke.
• TRUSTER
  One who makes a trust; -- the correlative of trustee. (more info) 1. One who trusts, or credits.
• TRUSTEE PROCESS
  The process of attachment by garnishment.
• FAILURE
  1. Cessation of supply, or total defect; a failing; deficiency; as, failure of rain; failure of crops. 2. Omission; nonperformance; as, the failure to keep a promise. 3. Want of success; the state of having failed. 4. Decau, or defect from decay;
• DISTRUST
  To feel absence of trust in; not to confide in or rely upon; to deem of questionable sufficiency or reality; to doubt; to be suspicious of; to mistrust. Not distrusting my health. 2 Mac. ix. 22. To distrust the justice of your cause. Dryden. He
• TRUSTEE STOCK
  High-grade stock in which trust funds may be legally invested.
• DISTRUSTFUL
  1. Not confident; diffident; wanting confidence or thrust; modest; as, distrustful of ourselves, of one's powers. Distrustful sense with modest caution speaks. Pope. 2. Apt to distrust; suspicious; mistrustful. Boyle. -- Dis*trust"ful*ly, adv.
• DISTRUSTER
  One who distrusts.
• DISTRUSTING
  That distrusts; suspicious; lacking confidence in. -- Dis*trust"ing*ly, adv.
• SELF-TRUST
  Faith in one's self; self-reliance.
• REDIMINISH
  To diminish again.
• MISTRUSTLESS
  Having no mistrust or suspicion. The swain mistrustless of his smutted face. Goldsmith.
• SELF-CONFIDENCE
  The quality or state of being self-confident; self-reliance. A feeling of self-confidence which supported and sustained him. Beaconsfield.
• OVERTRUST
  Excessive confidence.
• UNTRUST
  Distrust. Chaucer.
• BETRUST
  To trust or intrust.
• DEFAILURE
  Failure. Barrow.