Trust vs Promise - 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
An oath or affirmation; a vow.
A transaction between two persons whereby the first person undertakes in the future to render some service or gift to the second person or devotes something valuable now and here to his use.
* 1668 July 3rd, , “Thomas Rue contra'' Andrew Hou?toun” in ''The Deci?ions of the Lords of Council & Se??ion I (Edinburgh, 1683),
Reason to expect improvement or success; potential.
* Washington Irving
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(obsolete) Bestowal or fulfillment of what is promised.
* Bible, Acts i. 4
To commit to something or action; to make an oath; make a vow.
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In transitive terms the difference between trust and promise
is that trust is to risk; to venture confidently while promise is to commit to something or action; to make an oath; make a vow.In intransitive terms the difference between trust and promise
is that trust is to sell or deliver anything in reliance upon a promise of payment; to give credit while promise is to give grounds for expectation, especially of something good.In obsolete terms the difference between trust and promise
is that trust is faithful, dependable while promise is bestowal or fulfillment of what is promised.As an adjective trust
is secure, safe.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 ----promise
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Alternative forms
* promyseNoun
(en noun)pages 547–548
- He pur?ued Andrew Hou?toun upon his promi?e , to give him the like Sallary for the next year, and in ab?ence obtained him to be holden as confe?t and Decerned.
- My native country was full of youthful promise .
citation, passage=The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, so that the actual structure which had come down to posterity retained the secret magic of a promise rather than the overpowering splendour of a great architectural achievement.}}
- He commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father.
Verb
(promis)Engineers of a different kind, passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.
- The clouds promise rain.
citation, passage=I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me. I look upon notoriety with the same indifference as on the buttons on a man's shirt-front, or the crest on his note-paper.}}
