The Collaborative International Dictionary
Doubtance
Doubtance \Doubt"ance\, n. [OF. doutance. Cf. Dubitancy.]
State of being in doubt; uncertainty; doubt. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.
Usage examples of "doubtance".
France, the only ones who know different are one or two travelling showmen, a moneylender, and a woman who lives in a house called Doubtance and kens not only my name but my soul, if I have one.
Sometimes, if she did not choose, they came stumbling down the steep stairs of Doubtance with a scratched arm or the graze of a thrown vase on one cheek.
Hazily, other things one had heard about the Dame de Doubtance came back.
Then the Dame de Doubtance, an odd light in her faded eyes, turned from the silent bed and addressed the mahout in brisk French.