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Entrest vs Entrust - What's the difference?

entrest | entrust |

As verbs the difference between entrest and entrust

is that entrest is archaic second-person singular of entre while entrust is to trust to the care of.

entrest

English

Etymology 1

Verb

(head)
  • (entre)

    • entre

    English

    Verb

    (entr)
  • * {{quote-journal
    • , year=1566 , author=John Martiall , editor=D.M. Rogers , title=A Replie to M. Calfhills Blasphemous Answer Made Against the Treatise of the Crosse , journal=English recusant literature, 1558-1640 , volume=203 , page=125 citation , passage=And whosoever doth not suffer corruption to entre , by the five gates unto his soule, is rekoned amongest ... }}

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    entrust

    English

    Alternative forms

    * intrust

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To trust to the care of.

    • Usage notes

    See usage note for commit.

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