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Webster 1913 Edition
Betrustment
Be-trust′ment
,Noun.
The act of intrusting, or the thing intrusted.
[Obs.]
Chipman.
Webster 1828 Edition
Betrustment
BETRUST'MENT
,Noun.
Definition 2024
betrustment
betrustment
English
Noun
betrustment (plural betrustments)
- (obsolete) The act of entrusting, or the thing entrusted.
- 1793, Nathaniel Chipman, Sketches of the Principles of Government
- 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