mistrust

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

MISTRUST', noun Want of confidence or trust; suspicion. MISTRUST', verb transitive To suspect; to doubt; to regard with jealousy or suspicion. Fate her own book mistrusted at the sight.
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