Dis*trust", n. 1.
Doubt of sufficiency, reality, or sincerity; want of confidence,
faith, or reliance; as, distrust of one's power, authority,
will, purposes, schemes, etc.
2. Suspicion of evil designs.
Alienation and distrust . . . are the growth of
false principles.
D. Webster.
3. State of being suspected; loss of
trust. Milton.
Dis*trust" (?), v. t. [imp. &
p. p. Distrusted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Distrusting.] [Cf. Mistrust.] 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 that requireth the oath doth distrust that
other.
Udall.
Of all afraid,
Distrusting all, a wise, suspicious maid.
Collins.
☞ Mistrust has been almost wholly driven out by
distrust. T. L. K. Oliphant.