intrusting

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At noon she carried the dread missive home with her, gravely intrusting it to her Captain’s keeping.

From Marjorie Dean, High School Junior by Lester, Pauline

The act of intrusting, or the thing intrusted.

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

He might have accepted the suggestion of the captain of a French frigate then at the Ile d'Aix, who begged Napoleon to take the chance of intrusting himself to him.

From Napoleon's Young Neighbor by Reed, Helen Leah

"But you can at least tell me who sent you here, Geordie?" said I, anxious for further information before intrusting myself to such erratic guidance.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 383, September 1847 by Various

The sea brings out the real character of every man; and those who journey over its "deep invisible paths" find themselves intrusting their most sacred confidences to the keeping of comparative strangers.

From My Unknown Chum by Fairbanks, Charles Bullard