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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Mistristing, vbl. n. [Cf. Mistraisting and late ME. mistrist var. of mistrust v.] Suspicion. —1689 Melville Corr. 134.
Ther was nothing but a kind of mistristing in the caice
