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dubitation

[ doo-bi-tey-shuhn, dyoo- ]

noun

Archaic.


dubitation

/ ˌːɪˈٱɪʃə /

noun

  1. another word for doubt
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of dubitation1

1400–50; late Middle English (< Middle French, Old French ) < Latin ܲپō- (stem of ܲپō ), equivalent to ܲ ( us ), past participle of ܲ ( dubit- doubt + -ٳܲ -ate 1 ) + -ō- -ion
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In an agony of dubitation, as the day wore on, he was interrupted.

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Everything looked plain and straight and simple, and though old Billy more than half shook his gray head at the project, and let fall by several inches his tawny face, and took his pipe out of his mouth and cleared his throat noisily, and looked vacantly out to sea, and gave other ominous symptoms of grave internal dubitation, Dan leaped to his feet at the sudden access of new purpose, and bowled off in hot haste to tell the Bishop.

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He went; and Alf, in fearful dubitation said to himself, 'by such a chief is Munster to be governed!

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Perhaps this untoward state of dubitation came about from Narcissa's scornful comment.

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Behold how he joineth issue with the remonstrants against the contra-remonstrants, to introduce not only an academical, but a sceptical and Pyrrhonian dubitation and uncertainty, so that there shall never be an end of controversy, nor any settlement of truth and of the ordinances of Jesus Christ, so long as there shall be but one tenacious disputer to hold up the ball of contention.

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