- a variation of entrust.
intrust
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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What you told me about Jeths intrust made good readin.
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
She knew that she might safely intrust me with this permission; secure that, even if my resolutions were good, they would be ineffective.
From Discipline by Mary Brunton
But he took care not to intrust his gift to the concierge, for if he did he knew that his servant would certainly be told of it.
From Fr?d?rique; vol. 2 by Charles Paul de Kock
But manifestly, an absolute veto is too great a power to intrust to a single person, however wise he may be.
From Government in the United States National, State and Local by James Wilford Garner
If you want to give him something to do, why don't you intrust him with getting ready the house for your Christmas party?
From Poor Relations by Compton MacKenzie
As John Marshall was later to say of this new Constitution, “The sword and the purse, all the external relations, and no inconsiderable portion of the industry of the nation are intrusted to its Government.”
From Slate ● Jun. 26, 2012
It is true that government affairs are now intrusted to others who always had misgivings concerning the old acquisitive ideas.
From Time Magazine Archive
The part was intrusted to one Horace Braham.
From Time Magazine Archive
Three men, namely M. Kaganovitch, known as Stalin's right hand, Jarovski, and Enukidze, secretary of the central executive committee, were intrusted with carrying out this scheme.
From Time Magazine Archive
There is not a Minister of them all, that is intrusted with anything, but from time to time to execute positive instructions from his Court.
From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution (Volume VI) by Various
Let me show my appreciation of that confidence by intrusting you with one equally important.
From Gabriel Conroy by Bert Harte
As a well-known critic remarked in Macmillan—"This volume is one more illustration of the folly of intrusting the composition of biography to persons who have only the wholly irrelevant claim of intimate friendship."
From Harriet Martineau by Florence Fenwick Miller
“Do you remember intrusting Mr Ayling with some goods about that time to take up-country?”
From From Veldt Camp Fires by H.A. Bryden
He believes that, by intrusting the matter to a fellow countryman, he will get his boy back again.
From The Blue Lights A Detective Story by Frederic Arnold Kummer
"Thus, your highness, King James gives you a mark of the highest confidence in intrusting to you the defense of his rights and those of his young son."
From A Romance of the West Indies by Eugène Sue
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