Adjective : a trusting child. From Dictionary.com.
Kate had rapidly grown old; the look of radiant happiness and trustingness was gone. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.] Reference
That rottenness counts on the trustingness as well as the apathy and/or cynicism of individual citizens. From Wordnik.com. [Poll: Outright Majority of Democrats Back Hillary] Reference
From the dictionary, perfidy is defined as "violation of a trust reposed", "from phrase per fidem decipere 'to deceive through trustingness'", "calculated violation of trust; treachery". From Wordnik.com. [They just can't resist reaching for the sensational] Reference
Sure there is no bound to the trustingness of women. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne] Reference
There was a remarkable trustingness, if I may so speak, in Madeline's disposition. From Wordnik.com. [Eugene Aram — Complete] Reference
But all the habits of his life, his taste, his associations, his education - every thing - the trustingness of his disposition - his want. From Wordnik.com. [The flush times of Alabama and Mississippi : a series of sketches,] Reference
I wiped them then, and Eliza stood like a trusting child as I did so; and when I said I could not leave her till she smiled, she did smile a radiant smile of hope and trustingness. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of a Southern matron,] Reference
In calculations on the character of the Moor, Iago despises Othello's unsuspicious trustingness as imbecility, while he hates him as a man because his nature is the perpetual opposite and perpetual reproach of his own. From Wordnik.com. [Short Studies on Great Subjects] Reference
In his calculations on the character of the Moor, he despises his unsuspicious trustingness as imbecility, while he hates him as a man because his nature is the perpetual opposite and perpetual reproach of his own. From Wordnik.com. [Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc] Reference
"Oh," I cried, "for the uplifting faith that hath so often blest me! oh for the hopefulness, the trustingness of times past!. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography of a female slave,] Reference
) and of course oxytocin is the hormone associated with love/pair-bonding, and also with trustingness. From Wordnik.com. [Planet Atheism] Reference
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