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truster en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈtɹʌstɚ/ (General-American)
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From trust + -er.

Meanings

1. A person who trusts.
   • I would not hear your enemy say so, Nor shall you do mine ear that violence To make it truster of your own report Against yourself. c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
   • Giorgio did not really like the Colonel very much, or perhaps he was simply from Piemonte and cared for no one truly; which was understandable in cold people from a border province. Borderers are not trusters and the Colonel knew about this and expected nothing from anyone that they did not have to give. 1950, Ernest Hemingway, chapter 7, in Across the River and into the Trees, London: Readers Union, published 1952:
   • 1856, Walt Whitman, “Poem of the Road” [later entitled “Song of the Open Road”] in Leaves of Grass, Boston: Thayer & Eldridge, 1860, p. 324, Habitues of many different countries, habitues of far-distant dwellings, Trusters of men and women, observers of cities, solitary toilers,

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