doubt
IPA: dˈaʊt
noun
- (uncountable, countable) Disbelief or uncertainty (about something); (countable) a particular instance of such disbelief or uncertainty.
- (countable, obsolete or India) A point of uncertainty; a query.
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To be undecided about; to lack confidence in; to disbelieve, to question.
- (transitive, archaic) To harbour suspicion about; suspect.
- (transitive, archaic) To anticipate with dread or fear; to apprehend.
- (transitive, obsolete) To fill with fear; to affright.
- (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To dread, to fear.
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Examples of "doubt" in Sentences
- "No doubt -- Ay, do you hear that _no doubt_, Colambre?
- There's no doubt, sir; there's _no doubt_ that it was the spirit of Mr. Frederick Massingbird. "
- _point device_ companions, such rackers of orthography, as to speak doubt _fine_ when _he should say doubt_, etc.
- III. i.151 (367,7) That love the fundamental part of state/More than you doubt the change of't] To _doubt_ is to _fear_.
- The reason I go to riesling when I'm in doubt is the racy acidity that good ones feature -- and this one has it in spades.
- Carolos Duran has already seen my sketch for one, and he says there is not a doubt -- _not a doubt_ -- that it will be considered.
- It further emphasizes the papal benediction of the same, which, while not in doubt, is relevant again for the reason of these factors.
- Doubt strikes at the root of Justice and of Love -- not the doubt that is the half-brother to Disbelief, but the doubt which wonders always and always if we believe most easily what we _want to believe_, and if our firmest conviction against such Belief is not, more than anything else, yet one more manifestation of what we desire so earnestly _to doubt_.
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