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   Doubt , 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.]
   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.
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   Even in matters divine, concerning some things, we may lawfully doubt, and suspend our judgment.
   Hooker.
   
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   To try your love and make you doubt of mine.
   Dryden.
   
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   To suspect; to fear; to be apprehensive. [Obs.]
   Syn. -- To waver; vacillate; fluctuate; hesitate; demur; scruple; question.
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   Doubt, v. t.
   To question or hold questionable; to withhold assent to; to hesitate to believe, or to be inclined not to believe; to withhold confidence from; to distrust; as, I have heard the story, but I doubt the truth of it.
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   To admire superior sense, and doubt their own!
   Pope.
   
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   I doubt not that however changed, you keep
   So much of what is graceful.
   Tennyson.
   
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   To doubt not but.
   I do not doubt but I have been to blame.
   Dryden.
   
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   We doubt not now
   But every rub is smoothed on our way.
   Shak.
   
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   That is, we have no doubt to prevent us from believing, etc. (or notwithstanding all that may be said to the contrary) -- but having a preventive sense, after verbs of “doubting” and “denying” that convey a notion of hindrance.  E. A. Abbott.
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   To suspect; to fear; to be apprehensive of. [Obs.]
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   Edmond [was a] good man and doubted God.
   R. of Gloucester.
   
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   I doubt some foul play.
   Shak.
   
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   That I of doubted danger had no fear.
   Spenser.
   
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   To fill with fear; to affright. [Obs.]
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   The virtues of the valiant Caratach
   More doubt me than all Britain.
   Beau. & Fl.
   
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   Doubt, n. [OE. dute, doute, F. doute, fr. douter to doubt. See Doubt, v. i.]
   A fluctuation of mind arising from defect of knowledge or evidence; uncertainty of judgment or mind; unsettled state of opinion concerning the reality of an event, or the truth of an assertion, etc.; hesitation.
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   Doubt is the beginning and the end of our efforts to know.
   Sir W. Hamilton.
   
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   Doubt, in order to be operative in requiring an acquittal, is not the want of perfect certainty (which can never exist in any question of fact) but a defect of proof preventing a reasonable assurance of quilt.
   Wharton.
   
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   Uncertainty of condition.
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   Thy life shall hang in doubt before thee.
   Deut. xxviii. 66.
   
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   Suspicion; fear; apprehension; dread. [Obs.]
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   I stand in doubt of you.
   Gal. iv. 20.
   
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   Nor slack her threatful hand for danger's doubt.
   Spenser.
   
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   Difficulty expressed or urged for solution; point unsettled; objection.
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   To every doubt your answer is the same.
   Blackmore.
   
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   No doubt, undoubtedly; without doubt. -- Out of doubt, beyond doubt. [Obs.]
   Spenser.
   Syn. -- Uncertainty; hesitation; suspense; indecision; irresolution; distrust; suspicion; scruple; perplexity; ambiguity; skepticism.
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