betrustment

noun

betrustment

noun

Etymology From betrust + -ment.

1

Obsolete The act of entrusting, or the thing entrusted.

They have found it difficult to distinguish clearly, in the exercise of power, between a personal right, and a mere betrustment.1793, Nathaniel Chipman, Sketches of the Principles of Government:

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