Obs. Forms: 4–5 treste, 4–6 trest. [A parallel form to TRAIST sb., TRIST sb., TRUST sb. It may in some instances be a variant of traist (which is probable at least for the 16th c. Scotch use); but is viewed by Morsbach as a variant of trist.] Confidence, assurance, trust.
a. 1300. Floriz & Bl., 408. Al mi trest is þe upon.
1422. trans. Secreta Secret., Priv. Priv., xl. 198. Iosue … by the grete treste that he had in god, comanded the Sone and the mone.
1570. Satir. Poems Reform., xxiv. 48. To hing, As tratouris sould, for schuitting vnder trest.
a. 1600. Montgomerie, Misc. Poems, xxx. 23. Sen he took me vnder trest.
