Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a trusting manner; with trust or implicit confidence.

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  • adverb In a trusting manner.

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  • adverb with trust; in a trusting manner

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Examples

  • There is something deliberately sad about Vezzoli's darkened arrangement, as innocent Christ childs stare trustingly not to Mary, but to Vogue.

    Matthew Milliner: Francesco Vezzoli's 'Sacrilegio' And The Supermodel Of Sorrows Matthew Milliner 2011

  • There is something deliberately sad about Vezzoli's darkened arrangement, as innocent Christ childs stare trustingly not to Mary, but to Vogue.

    Matthew Milliner: Francesco Vezzoli's 'Sacrilegio' And The Supermodel Of Sorrows Matthew Milliner 2011

  • So his mother trustingly took her two-year old son to the May Day parade in Kiev, even as radiation continued to spread through the skies of Ukraine and down the Dnieper River, and on that May Day, 1986 into the body of that child, causing cancer.

    Al Gore: 25 Years Since Chernobyl Al Gore 2011

  • As I sat half-asleep in the wee hours of the morning, rocking and nursing my baby, all the tension would go out of me, and I felt consumed with love for this tiny being who gazed at me so trustingly.

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: New Moms Jack Canfield 2011

  • So his mother trustingly took her two-year old son to the May Day parade in Kiev, even as radiation continued to spread through the skies of Ukraine and down the Dnieper River, and on that May Day, 1986 into the body of that child, causing cancer.

    Al Gore: 25 Years Since Chernobyl Al Gore 2011

  • So his mother trustingly took her two-year old son to the May Day parade in Kiev, even as radiation continued to spread through the skies of Ukraine and down the Dnieper River, and on that May Day, 1986 into the body of that child, causing cancer.

    Al Gore: 25 Years Since Chernobyl Al Gore 2011

  • The waiter was taking care of us well, or so it seemed, and during the course of the evening I noticed my cell phone, which I trustingly left on the table, was now missing.

    Page 2 2009

  • I won't forget the image you described, of the wounded Smokey's brown eyes focused trustingly on the faces of his rescuers.

    une plaie - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • As I sat half-asleep in the wee hours of the morning, rocking and nursing my baby, all the tension would go out of me, and I felt consumed with love for this tiny being who gazed at me so trustingly.

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: New Moms Jack Canfield 2011

  • So his mother trustingly took her two-year old son to the May Day parade in Kiev, even as radiation continued to spread through the skies of Ukraine and down the Dnieper River, and on that May Day, 1986 into the body of that child, causing cancer.

    Al Gore: 25 Years Since Chernobyl Al Gore 2011

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