intrusting
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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 Florence Fenwick Miller
Judaism differs from all the ancient religions chiefly in its intrusting its truth to the whole people instead of a special priesthood.
From Jewish Theology by Kaufmann Kohler
The intrusting of so many great fortunes to women shows an increasing confidence in their judgment of social needs.
From Euthenics, the science of controllable environment a plea for better living conditions as a first step toward higher human efficiency by Ellen H. Richards
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 Eugène Sue
My father saw that, and reposed the greatest confidence in him in intrusting me to his care.
From Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. by Wilhelmine von Hillern
