c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 288 (MED) Trustynge settyth a mannys herte faste in goodnes.

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection i. sig. Cii So moche trustyng in the cerimonyes of their lawe.

1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 44^v Ill huswife..through trusting of others haue this for hir feese.

1613 S. Hieron Baptizing of Eunuch in Wks. (1620) I. 301 There should be..a trusting to Him, an expecting saluation by His meanes.

1677 A. Yarranton England's Improvem. 20 Moneys misventur'd by trusting and bad Securities.

1760 E. Nihell Treat. Art Midwifery i. 132 Where there is a complicated case..the trusting to those men-dabblers in midwifery is a folly.

a1771 T. Gray tr. Dante in Wks. (1884) I. 158 Betray'd By trusting, and by Treachery slain.

1818 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 3 62 A few years of confident hopings and unreserved trustings.

1855 R. C. Singleton tr. Virgil Eclogues iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. I. 22 There is no safe trusting to the bank.

1900 Med. News 6 Jan. 14/1 The trusting of such a surgical procedure to a layman is to be deplored.

1963 W. L. Guttsman Brit. Polit. Elite x. 308 A party which puts such great store in the trusting of the leader..requires possibly greater conviction for the open expression of rebellious thoughts.

2010 K. Templeton-Berger Welcome Home, Cowboy iii. 53 All that stuff about trusting was a crock... Life was more or less about making sure you were smarter and faster than the other guy.

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1969) Isa. xxxii. 9 Ȝee trostinge [L. confidentes] doȝtris parceyueþ with eris my speche.

1545 Bibliotheca Eliotæ Fretus, of fruor, trustyng.

1640 J. Sedgwick Eye of Faith Open to God 65 Though feares may materially rise in a trusting heart, yet they doe not victoriously worke in that soule that is truly trusting.

1693 Humours & Conversat. Town 27 Believing Vintners, Tailors, Sempstresses, and the rest of the trusting Shopkeepers.

1707 M. Prior Satire upon Poets 75 You've no Friend left, but trusting Landlady.

1791 H. More Estimate Relig. Fashionable World 108 Unsuspecting goodness, and trusting honesty.

1816 Ld. Byron Parisina v, in Siege of Corinth 66 She must lay her conscious head A husband's trusting heart beside.

1867 G. MacDonald Ann. Quiet Neighbourhood III. v. 107 He was of a kindly, gentle, trusting nature.

1906 G. R. Sims Living London (rev. ed.) III. 267/2 ‘Leading the Blind Horse’ is merely an elaborate practical joke, the point of which is to blindfold a trusting innocent and then to maltreat him.

1974 L. Kayira Detainee i. 1 The only remarkable thing about Napolo was his..naive and trusting simplicity.

2010 J. Coe Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim 301 You idiot, Roger! How could you have done this? More to the point, how can I have been so trusting?

a1475 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi (Cambr. Gg.1.16) (1997) iii. viii. 75 He..lasse trustyngly on me þenkeþ and feeleþ þen hit behoveþ.

1667 R. Alleine Best of Remedies 129 To live beleivingly, trustingly, and dependingly upon God.

1849 Fraser's Mag. 40 645 Most firmly and trustingly do I believe.

1883 C. F. Woolson For the Major iv. 84 The person one loves becomes..trustingly dependent, like a little child—upon one's hourly thought and care.

1957 M. Allingham in T. Jansson Moomin 1 When Moomin fans discover each other they..are..likely to sit down trustingly together.

2007 V. Adderley in Rialto Aug. 46 I crept out of bed to walk your dog. She came to me trustingly, tail bashing My knees.

1820 L. Hunt Indicator 13 Sept. 386 Clearness of blood, freshness of perception, and trustingness of heart.

1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond III. viii. 205 Sure there is no bound to the trustingness of women.

1959 A. Nin Children of Albatross 71 He laid his hand within hers as if nestling it there..in an act of trustingness.

2007 Independent 22 Sept. 49/4 Duncan was a fool to his trustingness..almost to the point of being what D H Lawrence called..a ‘murderee’.