Do we say distrust or mistrust

distrust 1252 occurrences

In allowing the laws to take their course against a body of men who were regarded with distrust and aversion as enemies of the State, the Emperor was simply unfortunate.

But sometimes I have fancied that among your official classes those who are ever so slightly employed in Government service, there isI do not love the word, but I must use ita distrust of Germany and her peace-loving propensities.

In the rush of this great national movement, separating England from the political ties of France and, to a less degree, from ecclesiastical bondage to Rome, the mutual distrust and jealousy which had divided nobles and commons were momentarily swept aside by a wave of patriotic enthusiasm.

He left England under a cloud of distrust and disappointment, in 1816, and never returned.

It is useless to blink the fact that there is now a distrust of parliamentary and representative government which is almost universal and this distrust, which is becoming widespread, reaches from the Bolshevism of Russia on the one hand, through many intermediate social and intellectual stages, to the conservative elements in England and the United States, and the fast-strengthening royalist "bloc" in France.

It is useless to blink the fact that there is now a distrust of parliamentary and representative government which is almost universal and this distrust, which is becoming widespread, reaches from the Bolshevism of Russia on the one hand, through many intermediate social and intellectual stages, to the conservative elements in England and the United States, and the fast-strengthening royalist "bloc" in France.

Even where distrust does not reach this disastrous conclusion, there is a growing feeling of repugnance to the methods now being adopted in high quarters to "sell religion" to the public, as is the phrase which is sufficient in itself to explain the falling away that now seems to be in process.

Indeed they all speak of that, largely unconscious, atmosphere of distrust of God which is so all-prevailing among Christian people today.

If the great, positive vice of the age is covetousness, the great negative one is distrust of God; the two invariably go together as parts of a wholeone is the reverse side of the otherfor, it is not that we must not, or ought not, but that we "cannot serve God and mammon."

We need sorely to reconsider what faith really is, and when we have recovered in some measure that knowledge of it in experience, which declared its unspeakable worth in the early Church and in later periods of ecclesiastical history which stand out before all others, we shall look back upon our past distrust of God and His promises with shame and wonderment, and proceed to revise our cataloguing of spiritual values and degrees of sin.

The work of Satan has even been the prompting of distrust of God in the human family, just as the work of redemption means so largely the re-establishing of it in the Person of Jesus Christ.

We have tried the way of the world, the way of reprisals, the way of distrust, and, thank God, we are none of us satisfied with the results.

There is no problem of labour, of politics, of society that is insoluble if once it is approached in the spirit of faith and fellowship and trust, but none of these is susceptible of solution where the controlling motives are hate, distrust and fear.

It is this nullification of the human element, of the person as such, the introduction of the gross aggregate with its artificial corporate quality, and the attempt to establish a correspondence between these unnatural things, the whole being intensified by the emotions of fear, distrust and hate, which produces the contemporary insistence on "rights" and the rank injustice, cruelty and disorder that follow the blind contest.

Free from the system of exploitation, without hatred or distrust, the people will labor because then labor will cease to be a despicable thing, it will no longer be servile, imposed upon a slave.

"Begin by asking something that does not cost so much, something that any one of us can grant without abatement of dignity or privilege, for if we can reach an understanding and dwell in peace, why this hatred, why this distrust?" "Then let's get down to details.

The long imprisonment of Roger Bacon (thirteenth century) who, while he professed zeal for orthodoxy, had an inconvenient instinct for scientific research, illustrates the mediaeval distrust of science.

It is possible that the knowledge of nature would have progressed little, even if this distrust of science on theological grounds had not prevailed.

I need not tell the survivors of so many hard-fought battles, who have remained steadfast to the last, that I have consented to this result from no distrust of them; but, feeling that valor and devotion could accomplish nothing that could compensate for the loss that would have attended the continuation of the contest, I have determined to avoid the useless sacrifice of those whose past services have endeared them to their countrymen.

After the battle of Gettysburg he tendered his resignation to President Davis, because he was apprehensive his failure, the responsibility for which he did not pretend to throw on his troops or officers, would produce distrust of his abilities and destroy his usefulness.

The recent transaction between Monk and O'Neil had diffused a spirit of distrust through the army.

" She did not heed him, but began instead to take him to task about his continual distrust.

"The Prince will gain many friends who up till now distrust him.

Distrust, weakness of faith.

For he is found by those who do not tempt him, And manifests himself to those who do not distrust him.

mistrust 316 occurrences

Mistrust sometimes drives a man totoOh, anyhow, it's a great mistake.

A serious writer, a teacher of economics of considerable value, he brought to his difficult task a scrupulousness and an exactness that bordered on mistrust.

And what can come out of all these selfish passions, when they are let loose, but that in which selfishness must always end, but that same mistrust and anarchy, ending in that same poverty and wretchedness, under which so many countries of the world now lie, as it were, weltering in the mire.

With such speeches, smoothly made, She found methods to persuade Margaret (who, being sore From the doubts she'd felt before, Was prepared for mistrust) To believe her reasons just; Quite destroy'd that comfort glad, Which in Mary late she had; Made her, in experience' spite, Think her friend a hypocrite, And resolve, with cruel scoff, To renounce and cast her off.

This was Jyanough, whose devoted attachment to the white stranger had first led him to mistrust his rival; and who still resolved to watch his movements with jealous care, and, if possible, to guard his friend from any evil that might be designed against him.

'Let no one,' thankfully exclaimed Williams in his diary, 'mistrust Providencethese ravens fed me in the wilderness!'

Why else should he mistrust Liane's sincerity in asserting that she had seen Popinot?

The motive for these excessive armaments can clearly be found in the jealousy and mistrust existing among the nations of Europe.

Isolation thus begets enmity and mistrust, as in other cases.

But those that with that living law Be unacquainted, cares do gnaw; Mistrust of God's good providence Doth daily vex their wearied sense. Now place me on the Libyan soil, With scorching sun and sands to toil, Far from the view of spring or tree, Where neither man nor house I see; * *

Craddock saw the Governor's mistrust under his thin veil of formal and restrained courtesy.

He was regarded with general mistrust; even James, the Lord's brother, the first bishop of Jerusalem, would hold no communion with him.

Against the cabin door leaned Savaroff, eyeing me with his usual expression of hostile mistrust.

To your bed; if you mistrust my faith, you do me the unnoblest wrong.

But when these frivolous, turbulent, incapable officers became his chiefs, chiefs over him, the studious, model officer, the upright man, the slave to the regulations, he began to mistrust everything, society, France, the empire, the justice of God, and himself.

His mistrust of Thirkle gave me an idea, which I put into play as soon as we were well inside the crevice.

She took particular pains to give Undine her due part in the performance; but the girl's expansive impulses were always balanced by odd reactions of mistrust, and to-night the latter prevailed.

No person can't be perfec', an' when I see people always outwardly serene, I mistrust their insides.

" The familiar gas-lamps, the roll of the cabs, the bustle in the streets, dispelled whatever shadows of mistrust in his own merits remained from Tom's reflections in the railway carriage; and long before he reached his uncle's house, he had made up his mind to "go in," as he called it, for Miss Bruce, morally confident of winning, yet troubled with certain chilling misgivings, as fearing that this time he had really fallen in love.

Even her resolute nerves were beginning to give way, and she knew her own powers well enough to mistrust a protracted trial of endurance.

IPHIGENIA If I conceal'd, O king, my name, my race, It was embarrassment, and not mistrust.

Here, then, is contempt for the master, abhorrence of the magistrate, and mistrust of the lawthe apprentice regarding all three as leagued together to rob him of his rights.

the third time he said, "Well, mum," and after that he simply blew enormously each time, scratched his head, and looked at his scales with an unprecedented mistrust.

In time of mistrust.

When tormenting thoughts, thoughts of fear, thoughts of unjust deeds of others done to you, thoughts of self-pity, anxiety, doubts, unforgiveness, mistrust of God, or evil of all kinds appear to take up your thoughts, just resist them and point to the blood on the door of your heart.

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