a. [f. TRUST sb. + -FUL 1.]
† 1. Trustworthy, trusty, faithful. Obs.
1580. Sidney, Ps. VII. i. O Lord, my God, Thou art my trustfull stay.
1582. Stanyhurst, Æneis, I. (Arb.), 40. His gyde was trustful Achates.
1674. N. Fairfax, Bulk & Selv., 189. The same most trustful witness that tells us when the world began [etc.].
2. Full of or exercising trust; trusting, confiding.
1832. [implied in TRUSTFULNESS].
1834. Lytton, Pompeii, III. iv. They went in their trustful thoughts far down the stream of time.
1850. Tennyson, In Mem., cix. The child would twine A trustful hand, unask’d, in thine.
1897. Mary Kingsley, W. Africa, xiv. 311. I am not of a trustful disposition.
Hence Trustfully adv., in a trustful manner.
1840. Monthly Rev., July 354. How does Helen receive the first tidings, and from Halbert’s own lips, that he has long most ardently and trustfully loved her?
1856. R. A. Vaughan, Mystics (1860), I. VI. v. 314, note. Sorrow and joy, pain and pleasure, are trustfully accepted as alike coming from the hand of Love.
