Trust vs Truth - 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
The state or quality of being true to someone or something.
(label) Faithfulness, fidelity.
* (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) (1772-1834)
(label) A pledge of loyalty or faith.
True facts, genuine depiction or statements of reality.
* (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) (1772-1834)
*{{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-21, volume=411, issue=8892, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Conformity to fact or reality; correctness, accuracy.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01, author=Robert M. Pringle, volume=100, issue=1, page=31, magazine=(American Scientist), title=
, passage=As in much of biology, the most satisfying truths in ecology derive from manipulative experimentation. Tinker with nature and quantify how it responds.}}
Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, model, etc.
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That which is real, in a deeper sense; spiritual or ‘genuine’ reality.
* 1820 , (John Keats), (Ode on a Grecian Urn)
(label) Something acknowledged to be true; a true statement or axiom.
* 1813 , (Jane Austen), (Pride and Prejudice)
Topness. (See also truth quark.)
(obsolete) To assert as true; to declare, to speak truthfully.
In obsolete terms the difference between trust and truth
is that trust is faithful, dependable while truth is a pledge of loyalty or faith.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 ----truth
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Alternative forms
* trewth (obsolete)Noun
(order of senses) (en-noun)- Alas! they had been friends in youth, / But whispering tongues can poison truth .
- The truth depends on, or is only arrived at by, a legitimate deduction from all the facts which are truly material.
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- Ploughs, to go true, depend much on the truth of the ironwork.
- Beauty is truth', ' truth beauty, - that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
- It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Synonyms
* SeeAntonyms
* falsehood, falsity, lie, nonsense, untruth, half-truthDerived terms
* half-truth * if truth be told * tell the truth * truthful * truthiness * truthless * truth or dare * truth serum * truthyVerb
(en verb)- Had they [the ancients] dreamt this, they would have truthed it heaven. — Ford.
- 1966', ''You keep lying, when you oughta be '''truthin
' — Nancy Sinatra, "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'"
