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Definition of Distrusting
1. a. That distrusts; suspicious; lacking confidence in.
Definition of Distrusting
1. Verb. (present participle of distrust) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Distrusting
1. distrust [v] - See also: distrust
Lexicographical Neighbors of Distrusting
Literary usage of Distrusting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1869)
"The public, however, distrusting him personally, and unable to conceive the
simplicity of a President who really imagined that creditors were influenced by ..."
2. The Miscellaneous Works of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh: Three by James Mackintosh (1848)
"The passion which prompts an absolute monarch to raise an unworthy favourite to
honour, is still less distrusting than the levity and hardness with which, ..."
3. The Island of Cuba by Alexander von Humboldt, John S. Thrasher (1856)
"Census of 1627, 1841, and 1846—Reasons for distrusting that of 1846—Supposed m
decrease of slaves—Its improbability—Reasons therefor—Increase of ..."
4. The Institutes of Justinian: With English Introduction, Translation, and Notes by William Gardiner Hammond (1876)
"105) ; but if he omitted to direct this, and there was ground for distrusting
the authority of the procurator, the judge would direct that the procurator ..."
5. A Treatise on Judicial Evidence by Jeremy Bentham, Etienne Dumont (1825)
"Reasons for distrusting copies. A. copy cannot have the same force as an original,
because it is liable to various causes of deception. 1. ..."
6. The Theological and Literary Journal (1855)
"distrusting man, whom we know to be ignorant and weak, instead of doubting and
impeaching God, who is infinite in intelligence, in power, and in goodness. ..."
7. The History of Rome by Livy (1888)
"distrusting that if Scipio pardoned the error of his own countrymen, they also
might obtain the same. ..."
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