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Untrust

adj, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective

1
Faithless; distrustful. archaic

Noun

1
Lack or absence of trust; mistrust. uncountable, usually
"Alternatively, untrust corresponds to the space between distrust and trust, in which an agent is positively trusted, but not sufficiently to cooperate with."
2
The zone representing everything that originates outside of the firewall. uncountable, usually
"You have only two zones (admins and untrust), so there are two intra-zone policy contexts (admins to admins and untrust to untrust ) and two inter-zone policy contexts ( admins to untrust and untrust to admins ) ."

Verb

1
To fail to trust; to distrust.
"As to pray and not to trust, so to trust and not to expect, to trust and then to murmur, to trust and to untrust, whiles we are speaking, to get the soul to put it selfe upon Christ , and before we have done speaking, to pluck of the soul againe, to deface our own fealing, to cast away our confidence, this is ill, very ill ."
2
To mark or flag (something) as untrustworthy.
"To untrust one document, you have to untrust them all.·"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English untrust, untrost, untrist, likely from un- + trust. Cognate with Icelandic útraust (“untrust”). Compare also Swedish otro (“lack of faith, disbelief”).

Etymology 2

From Middle English untrust, untriste, probably from Old Norse útraustr (“untrustworthy”). Cognate with Icelandic útraustur.

Etymology 3

From Middle English untrust, untriste, probably from Old Norse útraustr (“untrustworthy”). Cognate with Icelandic útraustur.

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