intrusting

I am greatly honoured by your intrusting me with it, sir, and will assuredly do my best.

It is the care, the management of this house that I have thought of intrusting to you as to an alter ego.

I wish to reward you by intrusting to you a mission of the highest importance.

There was a certain fitness in intrusting these creatures of the imagination to a poet.

Alexander did so, intrusting the command to an officer named Ptolemy.

But they are people to whom I am not at all desirous of intrusting my own private affairs.

To what other agency can she think of intrusting any of them?

A similar ceremony in Freemasonry is called the Rite of Intrusting.

I have placed you in the highest positions, intrusting you repeatedly with large shares of my own sovereign power.

It met them by intrusting "the enforcement of the law to be enacted to one person alone."