Trust vs Fear - What's the difference?
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Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality.
* John Locke
Dependence upon something in the future; hope.
Confidence in the future payment for goods or services supplied; credit.
That which is committed or entrusted; something received in confidence; a charge.
That upon which confidence is reposed; ground of reliance; hope.
* Bible, Psalms, lxxi. 5
(rare) Trustworthiness, reliability.
The condition or obligation of one to whom anything is confided; responsible charge or office.
* Shakespeare
* Denham
(legal) The confidence vested in a person who has legal ownership of a property to manage for the benefit of another.
(legal) An estate devised or granted in confidence that the devisee or grantee shall convey it, or dispose of the profits, at the will, or for the benefit, of another; an estate held for the use of another.
A group of businessmen or traders organised for mutual benefit to produce and distribute specific commodities or services, and managed by a central body of trustees.
(computing) Affirmation of the access rights of a user of a computer system.
To place confidence in; to rely on, to confide, or repose faith, in.
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To give credence to; to believe; to credit.
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To hope confidently; to believe; usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object.
* (rfdate) 2 John 12.
* (rfdate) Heb. xiii. 18.
to show confidence in a person by intrusting (him) with something.
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To commit, as to one's care; to intrust.
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To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment.
* Johnson
To risk; to venture confidently.
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To have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence; to confide.
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To be confident, as of something future; to hope.
* (rfdate) Isa. xii. 2
To sell or deliver anything in reliance upon a promise of payment; to give credit.
* (rfdate) Johnson
(lb) A strong, uncontrollable, unpleasant emotion caused by actual or perceived danger or threat.
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, chapter=18 (lb) A phobia, a sense of fear induced by something or someone.
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(lb) Extreme veneration or awe, as toward a supreme being or deity.
* Bible, (w)
* Bible, (Psalms)
To cause fear to; to frighten.
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* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
(label) To feel fear about (something); to be afraid of; to consider or expect with alarm.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
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, title= (lb) To venerate; to feel awe towards.
(lb) Regret.
(lb) To be anxious or solicitous for.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
(lb) To suspect; to doubt.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
In transitive terms the difference between trust and fear
is that trust is to risk; to venture confidently while fear is regret.In obsolete terms the difference between trust and fear
is that trust is faithful, dependable while fear is to suspect; to doubt.trust
English
Noun
(en noun)- He needs to regain her trust if he is ever going to win her back.
- Most take things upon trust .
- 1671', O ever-failing '''trust / In mortal strength! — John Milton, ''Samson Agonistes
- 1611', Such '''trust have we through Christ. — ''Authorised Version , 2 Corinthians iii:4.
- I was out of cash, but the landlady let me have it on trust .
- O Lord God, thou art my trust from my youth.
- [I] serve him truly that will put me in trust .
- Reward them well, if they observe their trust .
- I put the house into my sister's trust .
Synonyms
* belief * confidence * expectation * faith * hopeAntonyms
* mistrustDerived terms
* beef trust * brain trust * brains trust * constructive trust * honorary trust * partial trust * remainder trust * resulting trust * spendthrift trust * trust fall * trust fund * trust territory * trustworthyVerb
(en verb)- We cannot trust anyone who deceives us.
- In God We Trust - written on denominations of US currency
- I will never trust his word after.
- He that trusts every one without reserve will at last be deceived.
- Trust me, you look well.
- I trust to come unto you, and speak face to face.
- We trust we have a good conscience.
- I trust you have cleaned your room?
- Whom, with your power and fortune, sir, you trust , Now to suspect is vain.''
- Merchants were not willing to trust precious cargoes to any custody but that of a man-of-war.
- Merchants and manufacturers trust their customers annually with goods.
- It is happier sometimes to be cheated than not to trust .
- [Beguiled] by thee to trust thee from my side.
- More to know could not be more to trust .
- I will trust and not be afraid.
- It is happier sometimes to be cheated than not to trust .
Derived terms
* trustable * trustee * truster * trustorStatistics
*Anagrams
* 1000 English basic words ----fear
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) feer, fere, fer, from (etyl) . The verb is from (etyl) feren, from (etyl) , from the noun.Noun
- Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear .
citation, passage=‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience,’ said Munday with granite seriousness. ‘Should he make a row with the police
- Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. The clear light of the bright autumn morning had no terrors for youth and health like hers.
- I will put my fear in their hearts.
- I will teach you the fear of the Lord.
Synonyms
* , terror, fright * , anxiety, apprehension * (extreme veneration) awe, reverence, veneration * See alsoDerived terms
* affear * fearful * fearless * fearmonger * fearnaught * fearsome * no fearVerb
(en verb)- Thenne the knyghte sayd to syre Gawayn / bynde thy wounde or thy blee chaunge / for thou bybledest al thy hors and thy fayre armes // For who someuer is hurte with this blade he shalle neuer be staunched of bledynge / Thenne ansuerd gawayn hit greueth me but lytyl / thy grete wordes shalle not feare me ne lasse my courage
- Tush, tush! fear boys with bugs.
- I greatly fear my money is not safe.
- At twilight in the summer there is never anybody to fear —man, woman, or cat—in the chambers and at that hour the mice come out. They do not eat parchment or foolscap or red tape, but they eat the luncheon crumbs.
Mark Tran
Denied an education by war, passage=One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools
- The sins of the father are to be laid upon the children, thereforeI fear you.
- Fear you not her courage?