Obs. Also 4 -trost, -trest, 4–5 -truste, 5 -triste. [ME. f. WAN- + TRUST sb. Cf. MDu. wantroost.] Mistrust, lack of confidence.
c. 1374. Chaucer, Troylus, I. 794. But ones nyltow for þi coward herte,… For wantrust tellen of þi sorwes smerte.
1387–8. T. Usk, Test. Love, I. viii. 19. I saye nat these thinges for no wantrust that I have in supposinge of thee otherwyse than I shulde.
1412–20. Lydg., Chron. Troy, IV. 81. For now victorie is redy to oure hond,… And excludid,… Boþe of wantrust & of foreyn drede. Ibid. (c. 1450), Life Our Lady, xli. (1484), f vj. For wantriste of her felow salome.
c. 1450. Cov. Myst., 225. Many a man With his wantruste hymsylf hathe slayn.
