mistrustless
adjEtymology From mistrust + -less.
1
Obsolete Without mistrust or suspicion; trusting, unsuspecting.
- [T]he Geeſe ſeeing this counterfet Gooſe [the ounce), approach nigh to viſit him, vvho with a ſuddaine jerke apprehends his miſtruſtleſſe prey.1634, William Wood, “Of the Beasts that Live on the Land”, in New Englands Prospect. A True, Lively, and Experimentall Description of that Part of America, Commonly Called New England; […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes, for Iohn Bellamie, […], →OCLC, 1st part, page 23:
- The ſwain miſtruſtleſs of his ſmutted face, / While ſecret laughter tittered round the place […]1770, [Oliver] Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, a Poem, London: […] W[illiam] Griffin, […], →OCLC: