Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for DIS-TRUST'
DIS-TRUST', n.
- Doubt or suspicion of reality or sincerity; want of confidence, faith or reliance. Sycophants should be heard with distrust. Distrust mars the pleasures of friendship and social intercourse.
- Discredit; loss of confidence. – Milton.
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