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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

Kate had rapidly grown old; the look of radiant happiness and trustingness was gone.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. by Various

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

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