Dictionary Entry

trusts

Part of SpeechnounPronunciation/tɹʌsts/Used In Literature ↓

Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality.

In a Sentence

“He needs to regain her trust if he is ever going to win her back.”

Origin

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Common Phrases

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Poetry examples for “trusts”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

But who, living and dying, serene still and free,
Trusts in God, that as well as he was, he shall be.

Not to his patient touch, or happy flame,
'Tis to his British heart he trusts for fame.
If France excel him in one freeborn thought,

Though barter’d for his love-sick life;
Yet trusts he, with undaunted cheer,
To vanquish heaven, and call her Wife

Or only clear by inference:
But God trusts much to common sense,
And only tells us what, without

With all the hero's dull security,
Trusts to my care his mistress and his life,
And laughs, and wantons in the jaws of death.

Bid your teasing doubts depart;
He, who blindly trusts, will find
Faith from ev'ry gen'rous mind:

Bid your teasing doubts depart.
He who blindly trusts will find,
Faith from every generous mind;

He sees thee gentle, fair and gay,
And trusts the faithless April of thy May. COWLEY

But confident of praise, if praise be due,
Trusts without fear to merit and to you. 30

Bid your teasing doubts depart.
He who blindly trusts will find,
Faith from every generous mind;