overtrustn.
/ˌəʊvəˈtrʌst/, U.S. /ˌoʊvərˈtrəst/ Excessive trust; overconfidence, presumption.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pride > excessive self-confidence > [noun]
overtrust?c1225
self-witc1425
self-trust1526
self-wisdom1571
self-assurance1595
confidence1599
self-confidence1604
self-security1606
self-sufficiencya1617
sufficiency1638
self-wittedness1647
self-trusting1658
self-poise1774
suffisance1781
cock-surety1819
disinvolturac1847
cocksureness1878
cocksureism1889
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 248 Wið hope wið uten dred. þet is wið ouertrust. is þe vnselies saȝe. þe seið inþe sauter.
a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Nero) (1952) 150 Þeos two un-þeawes, untrust and ouertrust, beoð þes deofles tristren.
a1500 Eng. Conquest Ireland (Rawl.) (1896) 23 (MED) We haue for vs..ayeyn har boldnys and ouer-truste, mekenesse and maner.
1596 T. Lodge Margarite of Amer. sig. C3v Beware of ouer-trust, lest you commit the sweetest of your life to the credite of an vncertaine tongue.
1848 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 64 467 The eccentricity of the baronet, the overtrust and the mistrust of mankind,..are of the simpletonian school.
1883 G. H. Boker Leonor de Guzman in Plays & Poems I. iv. iii. 309 Over-trust In our own knowledge is an ignorance More perilous than modest diffidence.
1902–14 G. Barlow Poet. Wks. X. 279 That I was blinded by fierce light record, By over-trust, by over-zeal.
1944 ELH 11 289 Romantic idealists who swing from overtrust to unjust suspicion in a twinkling.
2002 Jrnl. Business Ethics (Nexis) Sept. 391 One fire kindles another; and without that overtrust in human worth, they show, the rest of us would be in spiritual stagnancy.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
overtrustv.
/ˌəʊvəˈtrʌst/, U.S. /ˌoʊvərˈtrəst/ 1. intransitive. To trust too much; to be overconfident. Frequently with to.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > belief > belief, trust, confidence > over-readiness to believe, credulity > believe too readily [verb (intransitive)]
overtrust?c1225
overtrowa1393
to run away with1574
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 247 Dred wið uten hope Makeð mon untrusten. & hope wið ute dred Makeð ouer trusten.
1556 N. Grimald tr. Cicero Thre Bks. Duties i. f. 36 Vnbridled with prosperitie, and ouertrusting to themselues.
1635 G. Wither Coll. Emblemes iii. 173 By Sloth, or Pride, or over-trusting to Their owne Sufficiencies, themselves undoe.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 1183 Thus it shall befall Him who to worth in Women overtrusting Lets her Will rule. View more context for this quotation
1995 New Yorker 4 Sept. 86/1 I had a sort of life, I guess. I overtrusted.
2. transitive. To place too much trust in.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > belief > belief, trust, confidence > over-readiness to believe, credulity > believe unquestioningly [verb (transitive)]
overtrust1649
1649 Bp. J. Hall Resol. & Decisions iii. ix. 328 Some there are that doe so over-trust their leaders eyes, that they care not to see with their owne.
1679 S. Slater Creation, Fall & Recov. of Man in Poems in Two Parts 34 Husbands, away with jealousies, you must Love wives with dearness, but not overtrust Them with self-rule.
1853 Putnam's Monthly Mag. Nov. 509/1 Good sir, you know that priors don't overtrust us that go to beg.
1865 J. D. G. Shea Lincoln Memorial 97 We abuse our confidence and overtrust our enemy.
1884 Harper's Mag. Sept. 578/2 She had no hand in the mischief, save in overtrusting a stranger.
1959 Jrnl. Higher Ed. 30 114/2 We overstress research, overtrust objective testing.
1996 Filipinas Mag. (Nexis) 31 Mar. 34 ‘I feel my parents even overtrusted me,’ Tarampi says.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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