[UN-1 12. Cf. WANTRUST.]
1. Unbelief, distrust. Now rare.
a. 1225. Ancr. R., 332. Þeos two unðeawes, untrust and ouertrust, beoð þes deofles tristren.
1382. Wyclif, Rom. iv. 20. In the byheeste of God he doutide not with vntrust.
1390. Gower, Conf., II. 147. This fievere of Jelousie Somdel … groweth of sotie, Of love, and somdiel of untrust.
1421–2. Hoccleve, Dialog, 336. Frendshipes lawe nat worth wer a myte, If þat vntrust vn-to it wer annexid; Vntrust hath many a wight ful sore vexid.
c. 1450. Cov. Myst. (Shaks. Soc.), 153. Alas!… For my grett dowth and fals beleve,… My fals vntrost hath wrought myscheve!
1581. Howell, Devises, M j. Condemde thou art for thine vntruste.
1890. J. Pulsford, Loyalty to Christ, I. 152. We should linger over the words ‘Our Father,’ till nothing of doubt, or untrust, remains.
† 2. Untrustworthiness. Obs.
1430–40. Lydg., Bochas, Prologue 429. To shewe thuntrust off al worldli thyng.
1563. Mirr. Mag., X ii. Of my death let … princes wete The worldes vntrust, that they thereby be taught.
1579. E. Hake, Newes out of Powles (1872), H iij. Suche is the vntruste that is in man, moe men can speake plausibly in time of good happe,… then [etc.].
