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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Doubt \Doubt\ (dout), verb (used without an object) [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.
Even in matters divine, concerning some things, we may lawfully doubt, and suspend our judgment. --Hooker.
To try your love and make you doubt of mine. --Dryden.
2. To suspect; to fear; to be apprehensive. [Obs.]
Syn: To waver; vacillate; fluctuate; hesitate; demur; scruple; question.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Doubting \Doubt"ing\, adjective That is uncertain; that distrusts or hesitates; having doubts. -- {Doubt"ing*ly}, adverb
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
doubting
adjective: marked by or given to doubt; "a skeptical attitude"; "a skeptical listener" [syn: {questioning}, {skeptical}, {sceptical}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
48 Moby Thesaurus words for "doubting": Pyrrhonic, agnostic, ambiguous, capricious, chancy, changeable, dicey, distrustful, doubtful, dubious, equivocal, erratic, fickle, from Missouri, hesitant, hesitating, in doubt, incalculable, indecisive, indemonstrable, irresolute, leery, mistrustful, mistrusting, polysemous, questioning, scrupulous, shy, skeptical, suspecting, suspicious, touch-and-go, unaccountable, uncertain, unconfirmable, unconvinced, undivinable, unforeseeable, unpersuaded, unpredictable, unprovable, unsure, untrusting, unverifiable, variable, wary, wavering, whimsical
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