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dubitative

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

adjective

  1. doubting; doubtful.
  2. expressing doubt.


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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • »å³Üb¾±Â·³Ù²¹î€…t¾±±¹±ð·±ô²â adverb
  • ³Ü²Ô·»å³Üb¾±Â·³Ù²¹î€…t¾±±¹±ð adjective
  • un·»å³Üb¾±Â·³Ù²¹î€…t¾±±¹±ð·±ô²â adverb
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of dubitative1

1605–15; < Late Latin »å³Ü²ú¾±³ÙÄå³ÙÄ«±¹³Ü²õ, equivalent to »å³Ü²ú¾±³ÙÄå³Ù ( us ) ( dubitation ) + -Ä«±¹³Ü²õ -ive
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Example Sentences

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The season’s end had given time to recover and he had looked physically sharp in training, if still a little unsure of his place within the system and occasionally dubitative in front of goal.

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Besides, if Aristotle had admitted and not excluded Figures from being Causes of not moving in some Bodies, which moulded into another Figure would move, he would have impertinently propounded in a dubitative manner, in the words immediately following, whence it is, that the large and thinne Plates of Lead or Iron, rest upon the water, since the Cause was apparent, namely, the Amplitude of Figure.

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“No,†said Tom, opening his pocketknife and holding it over the puff, with his head on one side in a dubitative manner.

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She was only waiting for the Bishop’s acceptance to send you an invitation; but we hear now,†he said in a dubitative and tentative way—“we hear now that it is possible that the Bishop may be lunching with you.â€

From

Dubitative subjunctive, see Deliberative. dubitÅ, dubium est, nÅn dubitÅ, nÅn dubium est, with quin, 298; —— nÅn dubitÅ w. inf.,

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