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Doubt   /daʊt/   Listen
Doubt

noun
1.
The state of being unsure of something.  Synonyms: doubtfulness, dubiety, dubiousness, incertitude, uncertainty.
2.
Uncertainty about the truth or factuality or existence of something.  Synonyms: doubtfulness, dubiousness, question.  "There is no question about the validity of the enterprise"
verb
(past & past part. doubted; pres. part. doubting)
1.
Consider unlikely or have doubts about.
2.
Lack confidence in or have doubts about.  "I suspect her true motives" , "She distrusts her stepmother"



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"Doubt" Quotes from Famous Books



... cove, when you get to know him. Yes, yes; no doubt he has heard me speak of you—in a general way, you know. Come into my snooze-corner, and ...
— In the Year of Jubilee • George Gissing
... hurt to death," he said. "Permit my compliments to the best swordsman I have ever known." Then with a touch of sorry humour he added: "You cannot doubt their sincerity." ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... some fourscore years ago, it was 1837 to be precise, a party of distinguished visitors arrived in what was then the little backwoods community of Ann Arbor. The interest of the loiterers at the country tavern and the corner grocery was no doubt aroused by their coming, for Ann Arbor we may suppose was not different from other small places; and this curiosity could hardly have been lessened by the fact that the newcomers were all men who figured prominently in the affairs of the State, which had been admitted to the Union only four months ...
— The University of Michigan • Wilfred Shaw
... No doubt but that she is uneasy; she is afraid lest I should say something. She sits once more looking away, but I can see she is breathing heavily. Ah, she need have no fear; I would not trouble her with so ...
— Wanderers • Knut Hamsun
... DR. F. HARTMANN, an enlightened author of the Theosophical and Occult school, presents the mystic or Oriental view of man, in an interesting manner, deducing therefrom a philosophy of the healing art. My readers will no doubt be interested in his exposition, and, as the ancient doctrine differs materially from the results of experimental investigation, I take the liberty of incorporating my ...
— Buchanan's Journal of Man, October 1887 - Volume 1, Number 9 • Various


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