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Definition of Distrusted
1. distrust [v] - See also: distrust
Lexicographical Neighbors of Distrusted
Literary usage of Distrusted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Gregory IX, knowing that Frederick II had on eight or nine previous occasions
postponed his departure for the East, distrusted the emperor's sincerity, ..."
2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"As if he distrusted the impartiality of his ecclesiastical counsellors, this
delicate commission was intrusted to a civil magistrate ; whose learning and ..."
3. History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain by William Hickling Prescott (1883)
"This was the old pontiff, Pius the Fifth, who had always distrusted the king's
sincerity. Pius had beheld with keen anguish the spread of heresy in the Low ..."
4. Oceana, Or, England and Her Colonies by James Anthony Froude (1887)
"... England—Democracy—Power and tendency of it—• The British race—Forces likely
to produce union—Natural forces to be trusted—Unnatural to be distrusted—If ..."
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