Obs. Also 3–5 triste, 4–5 tryst(e, (5 thrist). [App. etymologically related to TRAIST, TRUST; but the nature of the relation is not clear; see further under TRUST sb.] Confidence, faith; confident expectation, hope: = TRUST sb. 1, 2.
c. 1200. Trin. Coll. Hom., 75. Trist to longe lif letteð þe mannes shrifte.
1303. R. Brunne, Handl. Synne, 7228. Of swych, here wombes are here Cryst; Þat ys here loue, þat ys here tryst. Ibid. (c. 1330), Chron. (1810), 103. My triste is laid on þe duke Roberd.
c. 1374. Chaucer, Troylus, I. 98 (154). Thei hadde a relyk hight Palladion That was hire tryst [v.rr. trist, trost] a bouen euerichon.
c. 1380. Wyclif, Sel. Wks., III. 431. Siche signes drawen fro love of Crist þo þat setten so meche trist in hem. Ibid. (1388), Matt. ix. 22. Jhesus turnede, and say hir, and seide, Douȝtir, haue thou trist [1382 trust].
c. 1400. Apol. Loll., 30. He haþ no tryst of preching … he haþ only þe name of prest.
1413. Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton), II. xliii. (1859), 49. Thylke also, that vppon the tryste of mercy haue leyn in theyr lustes to theyr lyues ende.
c. 1440. York Myst., xviii. 13. All my triste, lord, is in þe.
1483. Cath. Angl., 393/2. Triste, fiducia ex bona consciencia est, confidencia temeritatis est, & cetera.
