DOUBT
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Doubt (dout), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Doubted; p. pr. & vb. n. Doubting.] [OE. duten, douten, OF. duter, doter, douter, F. douter, fr. L. dubitare; akin to dubius doubtful. See Dubious.] 1. To waver in opinion or judgment; to be in uncertainty as to belief respecting anything; to hesitate in belief; to be undecided as to the truth of the negative or the affirmative proposition; to b e undetermined.
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Even in matters divine, concerning some things, we may lawfully doubt, and suspend our judgment.
Hooker.
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To try your love and make you doubt of mine.
Dryden.
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2. To suspect; to fear; to be apprehensive. [Obs.]
Syn. -- To waver; vacillate; fluctuate; hesitate; demur; scruple; question.
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Doubt, v. t. 1. To question or hold questionable; to withhold assent to; to hesitate to believe, or to be inclined not to believe; to withhold confidence from; to distrust; as, I have heard the story, but I doubt the truth of it.
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To admire superior sense, and doubt their own!
Pope.
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I doubt not that however changed, you keep
So much of what is graceful.
Tennyson.
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To doubt not but.I do not doubt but I have been to blame.
Dryden.
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But every rub is smoothed on our way.
Shak.
[1913 Webster]That is, we have no doubt to prevent us from believing, etc. (or notwithstanding all that may be said to the contrary) -- but having a preventive sense, after verbs of “doubting” and “denying” that convey a notion of hindrance. E. A. Abbott.
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2. To suspect; to fear; to be apprehensive of. [Obs.]
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Edmond [was a] good man and doubted God.
R. of Gloucester.
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I doubt some foul play.
Shak.
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That I of doubted danger had no fear.
Spenser.
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3. To fill with fear; to affright. [Obs.]
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The virtues of the valiant Caratach
More doubt me than all Britain.
Beau. & Fl.
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Doubt, n. [OE. dute, doute, F. doute, fr. douter to doubt. See Doubt, v. i.] 1. A fluctuation of mind arising from defect of knowledge or evidence; uncertainty of judgment or mind; unsettled state of opinion concerning the reality of an event, or the truth of an assertion, etc.; hesitation.
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Doubt is the beginning and the end of our efforts to know.
Sir W. Hamilton.
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Doubt, in order to be operative in requiring an acquittal, is not the want of perfect certainty (which can never exist in any question of fact) but a defect of proof preventing a reasonable assurance of quilt.
Wharton.
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2. Uncertainty of condition.
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Thy life shall hang in doubt before thee.
Deut. xxviii. 66.
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3. Suspicion; fear; apprehension; dread. [Obs.]
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I stand in doubt of you.
Gal. iv. 20.
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Nor slack her threatful hand for danger's doubt.
Spenser.
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4. Difficulty expressed or urged for solution; point unsettled; objection.
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To every doubt your answer is the same.
Blackmore.
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No doubt, undoubtedly; without doubt. -- Out of doubt, beyond doubt. [Obs.] Spenser.
Syn. -- Uncertainty; hesitation; suspense; indecision; irresolution; distrust; suspicion; scruple; perplexity; ambiguity; skepticism.
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