Definitions
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- noun The state of being
trusting .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the trait of believing in the honesty and reliability of others
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Examples
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That rottenness counts on the trustingness as well as the apathy and/or cynicism of individual citizens.
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That rottenness counts on the trustingness as well as the apathy and/or cynicism of individual citizens.
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For instance, the trait of agreeableness may consist of correlated sub-traits: trustingness, altruism, compliance, and tender-mindedness.
The Bass Handbook of Leadership Bernard M. Bass 2008
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For instance, the trait of agreeableness may consist of correlated sub-traits: trustingness, altruism, compliance, and tender-mindedness.
The Bass Handbook of Leadership Bernard M. Bass 2008
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From the dictionary, perfidy is defined as "violation of a trust reposed", "from phrase per fidem decipere 'to deceive through trustingness'", "calculated violation of trust; treachery".
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Kate had rapidly grown old; the look of radiant happiness and trustingness was gone.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. Various
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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.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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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
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 02 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes Kuno Francke 1892
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In calculations on the character of the Moor, Iago despises Othello's unsuspicious trustingness as imbecility, while he hates him as a man because his nature is the perpetual opposite and perpetual reproach of his own.
Short Studies on Great Subjects James Anthony Froude 1856
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In his calculations on the character of the Moor, he despises his unsuspicious trustingness as imbecility, while he hates him as a man because his nature is the perpetual opposite and perpetual reproach of his own ....
Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc James Anthony Froude 1856
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