Distrust \Dis*trust"\, n.

1. Doubt of sufficiency, reality, or sincerity; want of confidence, faith, or reliance; as, distrust of one's power, authority, will, purposes, schemes, etc.

2. Suspicion of evil designs.

Alienation and distrust . . . are the growth of false principles. --D. Webster.

3. State of being suspected; loss of trust. --Milton.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Distrust \Dis*trust"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Distrusted; p. pr. & vb. n. Distrusting.]

[Cf. Mistrust.]

To feel absence of trust in; not to confide in or rely upon; to deem of questionable sufficiency or reality; to doubt; to be suspicious of; to mistrust.

Not distrusting my health. --2 Mac. ix. 22.

To distrust the justice of your cause. --Dryden.

He that requireth the oath doth distrust that other. --Udall.

Of all afraid, Distrusting all, a wise, suspicious maid. --Collins.

Note: Mistrust has been almost wholly driven out by distrust. --T. L. K. Oliphant.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)