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Doubted

Doubt \Doubt\ (dout), v. i. [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.

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vb. (en-past of: doubt)

Usage examples of "doubted".

Whether it was because she doubted my discretion or from habitual reserve, she was so particular that, even when I saw her in bed, my longing eyes never could obtain a sight of anything but her head.

Rather pleased with my production, I presented it the next day to the cardinal, modestly saying that I doubted whether he would accept the authorship of so ordinary a composition.

I no longer doubted her love for me, and I knew that, in this case, M.

I should be if, after the proof we have had, I doubted the oracle any more.

I thought this reply of such favourable omen that I no longer doubted of my success.

Campioni told me that no one at Vienna doubted my story in the slightest degree.

He had got an employment in Poland, his furniture had been sold, he had taken leave of everyone, and nobody doubted that he would take his pretty maid with him.

Scarcely believing in more than his death, which he no longer doubted, he pretended that each thing he had done was by the direction of God and this was his guide.

That our principal movements were known to the First Born I could not have doubted, in view of the attack of the fleet upon us the day before, nor could the stopping of the pumps of Omean at the psychological moment have been due to chance, nor the starting of a chemical combustion within the one corridor through which we were advancing upon the Temple of Issus been due to aught than well-calculated design.

It cannot be doubted that the balloon came from a great distance, for it could not have traveled less than two thousand miles in twenty-four hours.

As to the volcano itself, it could not be doubted that it was completely extinct.

As to the water of the lake, it was sweet, limpid, rather dark, and from certain bubblings, and the concentric circles which crossed each other on the surface, it could not be doubted that it abounded in fish.

Herbert, on seeing the engineer, the reporter, and Pencroft re-enter, guessed that their situation was aggravated, and when he saw Jup, he no longer doubted that some misfortune menaced Granite House.

It could not be doubted, as the gate then closed could only have been opened by them.

The strength of the handshake was so much akin to that which I had noticed in the driver, whose face I had not seen, that for a moment I doubted if it were not the same person to whom I was speaking.