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Definition of Intrusting
1. intrust [v] - See also: intrust
Lexicographical Neighbors of Intrusting
Literary usage of Intrusting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Science of Jurisprudence: A Treatise in which the Growth of Positive Law by Hannis Taylor (1908)
"... Habit of intrusting judicial office to private citizen. vate judicial processes,
and that, while he retained the former in his own hands, ..."
2. Cicero: A Sketch of His Life and Works by Hannis Taylor, Mary Lillie Taylor Hunt (1916)
"... Habit of intrusting judicial office to private citizen. judgment not mere
matters of personal dispute had to bt determined, but a law had to be built up ..."
3. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1867)
"If General Grant had ever expressed himself displeased with me to General Meade,
the latter had kept it from me; and ho ever showed, by intrusting to me the ..."
4. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1867)
"If General Grant had ever expressed himself displeased with me to General Meade,
the latter had kept it from me ; and he ever showed, by intrusting to me ..."
5. History of Europe During the Middle Ages by Henry Hallam (1899)
"... there arose, unfortunately, a fashion of intrusting great provinces to the
administration of a single earl. Notwithstanding their union, Mercia, ..."
6. The Political Text-book, Or Encyclopedia: Containing Everything Necessary by Michael W. Cluskey (1860)
"... to say nothing of the policy of intrusting a department on the execution of
which the salvation of the army depends, to a foreigner, who has no other ..."
7. Letters to a Young Lady,: In which the Duties and Character of Women are by West (Jane) (1806)
"Something too was said of the advantage, as well as of thf propriety, of intrusting
female practitioners with the preparation of nostrums for the moral ..."
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