"méfiance" meaning in French

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    {
      "form": "méfiances",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "f"
      },
      "expansion": "méfiance f (plural méfiances)",
      "name": "fr-noun"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "ref": "1939, Ernst Erich Noth, Le désert, page 74",
          "text": "Tout y est inscrit, et surtout une méfiance farouche à l’égard de tout et de tous ; on se guette, on se surveille, pour garder son rang dans cette queue immense, pour ravir une meilleure place à un voisin inattentif [...]",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "distrust (lack of trust or confidence)"
      ],
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          "distrust",
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      "related": [
        {
          "word": "méfier"
        }
      ],
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        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/me.fjɑ̃s/"
    },
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      "text": "Audio"
    }
  ],
  "word": "méfiance"
}

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    {
      "form": "méfiances",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
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        "1": "f"
      },
      "expansion": "méfiance f (plural méfiances)",
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    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "word": "méfier"
    }
  ],
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        "French countable nouns",
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        "French nouns",
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        "French terms with audio links",
        "French terms with quotations",
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        "distrust (lack of trust or confidence)"
      ],
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        "feminine"
      ]
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