foretrust

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verb

To trust beforehand; trust in advance.

Scrabble 12

Meanings

verbforetrust (third-person singular simple present foretrusts, present participle foretrusting, simple past and past participle foretrusted)

present singular third person foretrusts · participle present foretrusting · participle past foretrusted · past foretrusted

  1. transitiveTo trust beforehand; trust in advance.

    He who was thus foretold, was also foretrusted.

    2012, The Sacred Writings of Tertullian
    2 more examples

    Already it has been shown that both the covenants are theirs (chap, ix.), though the Church, as foretrusting in Christ (Eph. i. 12), enjoys the fatness of the blessing while the natural object of the covenant remains as yet an outcast.

    1852, Arthur Pridham, Notes and reflections on the Epistle to the Romans

    Therefore the Spirit and the Gospel will be found in the Christ, who was foretrusted, because foretold.

    1995, Ante-Nicene Fathers: Latin Christianity

Origin

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