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Definition of Mistrusting
1. mistrust [v] - See also: mistrust
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mistrusting
Literary usage of Mistrusting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Roman Empire of the Second Century: Or, The Age of Antonines by William Wolfe Capes (1897)
"... grave reasons for mistrusting the accounts which reach us from such ...
and epitomes of a much later age, mistrusting which often betray a fatal want of ..."
2. The Pilgrim's Progress from this World to that which is to Come Delivered by John Bunyan (1896)
"answer, only they heard a groaning. Then said Hopeful, Where are we now ? Then was
his fellow silent, as mistrusting that ..."
3. Commentaries on the Historical Plays of Shakspeare by Thomas Peregrine Courtenay (1840)
"... to ask those on the banks, If they were his assistants, yea or no ; Who answer'd
him they came from Buckingham Upon his party; he mistrusting them. ..."
4. A Book Called in Latin Enchiridion Militis Christiani, and in English The by Desiderius Erasmus (1905)
"And so against this double mischief shall there be a double remedy, if thou in
the conflict mistrusting thine own strength dost flee for succour unto thy ..."
5. The Letters of Charles Dickens by Charles Dickens, Georgina Hogarth, Mamie Dickens (1879)
"the high priest of the mysteries, I have some considerable reason—derived from
two honourable men—for mistrusting. And that some of the disciples are very ..."
6. An impartial history of Ireland, from the period of the English invasion to by Dennis Taaffe (1811)
"some steps to get himself crowned king of England; but, mistrusting the issue,
he was content to fortify some castles in England; after which he had an ..."
7. Plato and the Older Academy by Eduard Zeller, Alfred Goodwin (1876)
"Since this is just what he does assert, without a word to the contrary, we have
not the slightest reason for mistrusting such explanations. ..."
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