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trust sb.:
1. belief, conviction Tw.N. IV. iii. 15 “persuades me To any other trust but that I am mad.”
2. credit Mer.V. I. i. 186 “of my ” (=on my credit; cf. OF 9).
3. trusted person 1H6 IV. iv. 20 “the of England's honour,” Tit. I. i. 181 “their tribune and their trust.”
4. phrases and contextual uses:—“in ,” enjoying one's confidence, confidential H8 I. ii. 125; “of ” trustworthy, reliable Cor. I. vi. 52 “their men of ,” 54, Lr. II. i. 117 “Natures of such deep ,” Ant. V. ii. 153 “of no more ” (=no more to be relied upon), Sonn. xlviii. 4; “on my ,” as I am to be trusted, on my word Meas. V. i. 147; “put in ,” entrust important matters to Lr. I. iv. 15, Oth. II. iii. 132;— 1H6 III. ii. 112 “What is the of” . . ., What reliance can be placed upon?;— Sonn. xxiii. 5 “for fear of ,” fearing to trust myself.
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