“trusteth” is a form of
trust
/tɹʌst/ noun, verb, adjective
Forms trusts trusting trusted trustest trustedst trusteth
- noun Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality. “He needs to regain her trust if he is ever going to win her back.”
- noun Dependence upon something in the future; hope.
- noun Confidence in the future payment for goods or services supplied; credit. “I was out of cash, but the landlady let me have it on trust.”
- noun That which is committed or entrusted; something received in confidence; a charge.
- noun That upon which confidence is reposed; ground of reliance; hope.
- noun (rare) Trustworthiness, reliability.
- noun The condition or obligation of one to whom anything is confided; responsible charge or office.
- noun (law) The confidence vested in a person who has legal ownership of a property to manage for the benefit of another. “I put the house into my sister's trust.”
- verb (transitive) To place confidence in, to rely on, to confide in. “We cannot trust anyone who deceives us.”
- verb (intransitive, with in) To have faith in; to rely on for continuing support or aid. “In God We Trust”
- verb (transitive) To give credence to; to believe; to credit.
- verb (transitive) To hope confidently; to believe (usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object) “I trust you have cleaned your room?”
- verb (transitive) to show confidence in a person by entrusting them with something.
- verb (transitive) To commit, as to one's care; to entrust.
- verb (transitive) To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment. “Merchants and manufacturers trust their customers annually with goods.”
- verb (intransitive, followed by to) To rely on (something), as though having trust (on it). “to trust to luck”
- adjective (obsolete) Secure, safe.
- adjective (obsolete) Faithful, dependable.
- adjective (law) of or relating to a trust.
Synonyms
belief confidence faith expectation hope reliance trustingness trustfulness corporate trust combine cartel swear rely bank believe desire entrust intrust confide commit
Antonyms
Etymology
From Middle English trust, trost (“trust, protection”). Long considered a borrowing from Old Norse traust (“confidence, help, protection”), from Proto-Germanic *traustą, but the root vocalism is incompatible, so trust has come to be considered a reflex of an unattested Old English *trust, from a rare zero-grade Proto-Germanic variant of the same root also attested in Middle High German getrüste (“host”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *deru- (“be firm, hard, solid”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Traast (“comfort, solace”), West Frisian treast (“comfort, consolation, solace”), Dutch troost (“comfort, consolation”), German Trost (“comfort, consolation”), Low German Troost (“comfort, consolation”), Luxembourgish Trouscht (“consolation”), Danish trøst (“comfort, solace”), Icelandic traust (“faith, trust; confidence”), Norwegian Nynorsk trøst, trøyst (“consolation”), Swedish tröst (“comfort, consolation”), Gothic 𐍄𐍂𐌰𐌿𐍃𐍄𐌹 (trausti, “covenant, pact”). Doublet of tryst. More at true, tree.
Webster’s 1913
- noun Assured resting of the mind on the integrity, veracity, justice, friendship, or other sound principle, of another person; confidence; reliance; reliance. "O ever-failing trust in mortal strength!" Milton.
- noun Credit given; especially, delivery of property or merchandise in reliance upon future payment; exchange without immediate receipt of an equivalent; as, to sell or buy goods on trust.
- adjective Held in trust; as, trust property; trustmoney.
- verb To place confidence in; to rely on, to confide, or repose faith, in; as, we can not trust those who have deceived us. I will never trust his word after. Shak.
Etymology [OE. trust, trost, Icel. traust confidence, security; akin to Dan. & Sw. tröst comfort, consolation, G. trost, Goth. trausti a convention, covenant, and E. true. See True, and cf. Tryst.]
Etymology [OE. trusten, trosten. See Trust, n.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “trust”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details