Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who distrusts.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who distrusts.
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- noun someone who
distrusts
Etymologies
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Examples
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And what shall I say to a distruster of God, who tells me that he has no warrant for giving up his distrust, for he is not entitled to trust God till he is converted?
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Not that I distrust _you_ -- you are the last in the world I could distrust: and then (although you may be sceptical) I am naturally given to trust ... to a fault ... as some say, or to a sin, as some reproach me: -- and then again, if I were ever such a distruster, it could not be of _you_.
The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 Robert Browning 1850
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The effect was similar to that seen in the manufacturing process of PVC which is known to affect hormones, and is called an endocrine distruster.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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On the lower levels of life, where most of his work was done, he was strangely under the sway of the past, a distruster of reason, a restorer of ancient doctrine, a conservative in thought and action, a friend of rulers, a guardian, as far as he could be, of the _status quo_ -- a leader who anathematized radicals and enthusiasts and who staved off and postponed for nearly four hundred years the truly liberating and thoroughly {16} adequate reformation.
Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries Rufus Matthew Jones 1905
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Not that I distrust you ” you are the last in the world I could distrust: and then (although you may be sceptical) I am naturally given to trust ... to a fault ... as some say, or to a sin, as some reproach me: ” and then again, if I were ever such a distruster, it could not be of you.
The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Browning, Robert, 1812-1889 1898
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