mistrustless

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adjective

Without mistrust or suspicion; trusting, unsuspecting.

First used 16th–20th c.Scrabble 14
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Meanings

adjectivemistrustless (not comparable)
  1. not comparableobsoleteWithout mistrust or suspicion; trusting, unsuspecting.First known use 16th–20th c.

    The ſwain miſtruſtleſs of his ſmutted face, / While ſecret laughter tittered round the place […]

    1770, [Oliver] Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, a Poem, London: […] W[illiam] Griffin, […], →OCLC
    1 more example

    [T]he Geeſe ſeeing this counterfet Gooſe [the ounce), approach nigh to viſit him, vvho with a ſuddaine jerke apprehends his miſtruſtleſſe prey.

    1634, William Wood, “Of the Beasts that Live on the Land”, in New Englands Prospect. A True, Lively, and Experimentall Description of that Part of America, Commonly Called New England; […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes, for Iohn Bellamie, […], →OCLC, 1st part, page 23

Origin

From mistrust + -less.

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