intrusting

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And very ill-natured it was of him to leave me in the stable, instead of intrusting me to your care, mistress.

From For the Cause by Weyman, Stanley J.

William of Orange had testified his confidence in him by intrusting to him a mission as difficult as it was dangerous, the nature of which we shall know later on.

From A Romance of the West Indies by Sue, Eugène

As a well-known critic remarked in Macmillan—"This volume is one more illustration of the folly of intrusting the composition of biography to persons who have only the wholly irrelevant claim of intimate friendship."

From Harriet Martineau by Miller, Florence Fenwick

The act of intrusting, or the thing intrusted.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah

"Thus, your highness, King James gives you a mark of the highest confidence in intrusting to you the defense of his rights and those of his young son."

From A Romance of the West Indies by Sue, Eugène