Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To distrust; doubt.
- To doubt; mistrust.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb obsolete To think wrongly.
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- verb intransitive, obsolete To
mistrust ;distrust ;doubt . - verb intransitive, obsolete To
think wrongly . - verb transitive, obsolete To doubt; mistrust.
- noun obsolete
Mistrust .
Etymologies
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From Middle English mistrowen, mistreowen, from Old English *mistrēowan, mistrīwan ("to mistrust"), equivalent to mis- + trow. Cognate with Dutch mistrouwen ("to mistrust"), German mistrauen ("to mistrust"), Icelandic mistrúa ("to mistrow, mistrust").
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From Middle English mistrowe, from mistrowen ("to mistrust"). See above.
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