trustfulnessn.
/ˈtrʌs(t)f(ᵿ)lnəs/, U.S. /ˈtrəs(t)fəlnəs/ The quality of being trustful; (also) an instance of this.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > belief, trust, confidence > [noun] > trustful quality or condition
belieffulness1540
trustiness?1567
trustfulness1574
trustingness1820
confidingness1851
1574 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. St. Paule to Galathians xxii. f. 169v He had such a trustfulnesse [Fr. esperance] and so constant a fayth, that he hilde out euen to the last push.
1612 H. Ainsworth Bk. Psalmes Englished with Annot. (iv. 9) 11 To confidence, or trustfulnes; with hope: that is, confidently or trustfully.
1698 C. Mather Diary (1911) I. 281 The Gravity, and Sanctity, and Trustfulness, of a Conversation in Heaven.
1831 C. I. Johnstone Lives & Voy. of Drake, Cavendish, & Dampier i. 28 Their visiters..repaid this trustfulness and hospitality by making thirty-six of the Indians captive.
1864 C. Dickens Let. ?Mar. (1998) X. 369 Trustfulness is at the bottom of all social Institutions.
1896 Duke of Argyll Philos. Belief 411 A reasonable trustfulness in our fellow-men is..recognized as a virtue.
1928 A. Huxley Point Counter Point xv. 276 Every movement of languor and abandonment was eagerly interpreted by him as a symptom of inner softening, of trustfulness and surrender.
1975 ‘E. Ferrars’ Cup & Lip i. 12 She was a curious mixture of openness and reticence, of trustfulness and wariness.
2013 D. Orlov Five Stages of Collapse 58 Trustfulness..is the property of small children, tame animals and..salt-of-the-earth, mainstream Americans.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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