Adjective : a trustful friend. From Dictionary.com.
He and his wife were quite taken with what they called my "trustfulness," and adopted me with enthusiasm. From Wordnik.com. [Novel Notes] Reference
Relaxed vigilance leads to a deceptive trustfulness. From Wordnik.com. [The United States did NOT get into this abyss accidentally because of random honest mistakes and bungling!] Reference
The fellow's a boy -- a mere child -- in his trustfulness!. From Wordnik.com. [The Genius] Reference
His was not a lazy trustfulness that hoped, and did no more. From Wordnik.com. [David Copperfield] Reference
The trustfulness of his two fair daughters was beautiful indeed. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit] Reference
There was a trustfulness in his manner that delighted the Doctor. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866] Reference
Now he had fallen victim to his own good nature and trustfulness. From Wordnik.com. [Commandant of Auschwitz]
In all the trustfulness of confiding love she is seen leaning upon her Beloved. From Wordnik.com. [Union and Communion] Reference
She abandoned herself to her profound happiness with the trustfulness of a child. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
There is humility in that simple, quaint present; trustfulness and kind intention. From Wordnik.com. [Little Travels and Roadside Sketches] Reference
In my foolish trustfulness I was rash enough to add a caress and to pat her soft neck. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories of Various Types] Reference
He dismissed them with liberal presents, and not a few jibes about their trustfulness. From Wordnik.com. [First footsteps in East Africa] Reference
There is a vein of loving trustfulness pervading his narrative that is really touching. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
And there she saw three children of celestial beauty playing with perfect trustfulness. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva] Reference
Nevertheless, in spite of his loyal trustfulness, he could not help saying to his wife. From Wordnik.com. [Le Colonel Chabert] Reference
Her affection for the Baron had too much of the vague in it to afford her trustfulness now. From Wordnik.com. [The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid] Reference
And at such moments I notice that her face has lost the old look of confiding trustfulness. From Wordnik.com. [The Wife] Reference
Her shyness, her timidity, her trustfulness, her tears foster my own strength and grandeur. From Wordnik.com. [Twilight in Italy] Reference
Surely Gibbon would cure even the most optimistic of modern atheists of the habit of trustfulness. From Wordnik.com. [The Power and the Glory?] Reference
Surely Gibbon would help even the most optimistic modern atheists break the habit of trustfulness. From Wordnik.com. [Too Much Faith in Faith] Reference
'Did work!' exclaimed she gladly, and quite ready of belief, with the tender trustfulness of a true sister. From Wordnik.com. [Holiday Tales] Reference
That man who misappropriates what is deposited with him in trustfulness has to undergo a hundred transformations. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference
She held out her hand with that look which few could resist, a look of winning trustfulness words cannot describe. From Wordnik.com. [Sara, a Princess] Reference
His lips twitched nervously; but in a moment the trustfulness which she had taught him was at hand to comfort her. From Wordnik.com. [Apples, Ripe and Rosy, Sir] Reference
She was desperately conscious of me, watching me askant with the curiously commingled fear and trustfulness of a child. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908] Reference
Claire returned to her room and penned a long letter to Edward Percy, full of sweet confidence, gayety and trustfulness. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
Hay, therapeutically, had effected an astonishing revolution in a nature disposed congenitally to peace and trustfulness. From Wordnik.com. [Diane of the Green Van] Reference
We were bringing the cynicism of youth to bear on the trustfulness of a mature mercenary when the train arrived at Amiens. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures of a Despatch Rider] Reference
Do you remember the purity, the goodness and trustfulness of ideas, the softening of noble hopes, the silence of full hearts?. From Wordnik.com. [The Diary of a Superfluous Man and other stories] Reference
In complete trustfulness they say unto me what they wish to say, and restrain me from courses that are unrighteous or improper. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
Deprivest thou, through covetousness or folly, of their pensions the proteges who have sought thy shelter from trustfulness or love?. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3] Reference
I ought to tell you that I never in my life met a man anything like him for noble simplicity of mind and for boundless trustfulness. From Wordnik.com. [The Idiot] Reference
Mrs. Kearney looked searchingly at the oldish face which was screwed into an expression of trustfulness and enthusiasm and answered. From Wordnik.com. [Dubliners] Reference
He was folding her close now, and she nestled in his arms with perfect trustfulness, with untold happiness shining in her bright eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
Those who remember his taciturnity and little eccentricities also speak of his kindness of heart, generosity and trustfulness of others. From Wordnik.com. [Australian Writers] Reference
She looked out at the rain until the melancholy of the wet street effaced all the trustfulness and enthusiasm from her twisted features. From Wordnik.com. [Dubliners] Reference
Her head was a little on one side, not much, but just enough to speak of trustfulness, and rob her of the stiff effect of self-reliance. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Mr. Polly] Reference
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