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distrust

noun
/dɪsˈtɹʌst/

Etymology

From dis- + trust, alteration of the earlier term wantrust.

  1. derived from *deru-✻ — “be firm, hard, solid”
  2. inherited from *trust✻
  3. inherited from trust — “trust, protection”
  4. prefixed as distrust — “dis + trust”

Definitions

  1. Lack of trust or confidence.

  2. To put no trust in

    To put no trust in; to have no confidence in.

    • Moreover, genuinely conservative governments were inclined to distrust all intellectuals and ideologists, even reactionary ones, for, once the principle of thinking rather than obeying was accepted, the end was in sight.
    • Lord Baelish, perhaps I was wrong to distrust you. Petyr Baelish (Aidan Gillen): Distrusting me was the wisest thing you've done since you climbed off your horse.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at distrust. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at distrust. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at distrust

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA