Example Sentences

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Thankfully, Edmund is a repository of innocent wonder and trustingness, and ignores all the advice in his book.

From The Guardian • May 31, 2013

Most readers will agree that Caley in his bedazzled guilelessness, his dumb trustingness, is basically well conceived.

From Time Magazine Archive

Lastly, the singular and indignant strength of his execution often makes up for the trustingness that he was sorry to miss.

From Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 2 by Tasso, Torquato

We love in her beauty, youthfulness, playfulness, trustingness, her character, her faults, her caprices, and God knows what 'je ne sais quoi' besides; but we do not love her understanding.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 02 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno

He found it at last in a small rock about nine inches by twelve—full of sentiment, tone, color, piety, feeling, reality, child-like faith and trustingness.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various