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Definition of Trustfulness
1. Noun. The trait of believing in the honesty and reliability of others. "The experience destroyed his trust and personal dignity"
Generic synonyms: Trait
Specialized synonyms: Credulity
Antonyms: Distrust
Derivative terms: Trust, Trusty, Trustful, Trusting
Definition of Trustfulness
1. Noun. The property of being trustful. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Trustfulness
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Trustfulness
Literary usage of Trustfulness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Autology: An Inductive System of Mental Science; Whose Centre is the Will by David Henry Hamilton (1873)
"trustfulness. These are original and primary elements; ... and trustfulness, we
have Hopefulness, which is the third elemental affection. h. ..."
2. New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle by Jane Welsh Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle (1903)
"But you will see, in my putting so little restraint on my thoughts, that I feel
towards you the trustfulness of a sincere affection, and so will not weary ..."
3. Levana: Or, The Doctrine of Education by Jean Paul (1891)
"ON THE trustfulness OF CHILDREN. §71. LONG before the child can speak he understands
the speech 'of others, and that without gestures or cadence in the ..."
4. The World as the Subject of Redemption: Being an Attempt to Set Forth the by William Henry Fremantle (1901)
"On the other hand, the vast benefits which trade confers, the noble, liberal
spirit in which its higher operations are often conducted, and the trustfulness ..."
5. Christian Theology and Social Progress: The Bampton Lectures for 1905 by Frederick William Bussell (1907)
"... not the recognition of its undeviating rigour : the later willing service due
to no quixotic surrender of value but to perfect trustfulness : curious ..."
6. Pioneering in the Far East: And Journeys to California in 1849 and to the by Ludvig Verner Helms (1882)
"... where they have approached the former with such feelings of trustfulness as
these poor tribes evinced towards Sir James Brooke and those who followed in ..."
7. Travels, Researches, and Missionary Labors, During an Eighteen Years by Johann Ludwig Krapf, Ernest George Ravenstein (1860)
"... —trustfulness of the people: democracy and despotism—Forward towards
Fuga—Mountain-scenery : the one thing wanting—Fuga—Salla—Interview with king ..."
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