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Definition of Doubting
1. Adjective. Marked by or given to doubt. "A skeptical listener"
Similar to: Distrustful
Derivative terms: Sceptic, Scepticism, Skeptic, Skepticism, Skepticism
Definition of Doubting
1. a. That is uncertain; that distrusts or hesitates; having doubts.
Definition of Doubting
1. Verb. (present participle of doubt) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Doubting
1. doubt [v] - See also: doubt
Lexicographical Neighbors of Doubting
Literary usage of Doubting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1896)
"A doubting HEART WHERE are the swallows fled ? Frozen and dead. ... O doubting
heart! Far over purple seas. They wait, in sunny ease, The balmy southern ..."
2. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"To whom, thus doubting, this the better seem'd, To turn and seek Atrides. They,
meantime, Fought on, each slaughtering each ; and steel ..."
3. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll by Robert Green Ingersoll (1900)
"WE TWO, the doubting brain and hoping heart, with somber thought and radiant ...
And then the end, sighs the doubting brain—but there is no end, ..."
4. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1845)
"doubting THOUGH the world he bright before us, Bright with hill, and vale, and
stream; Though the skies be sunny o'ef ok, Golden as an infant's dream ..."
5. The Works of President Edwards ...: With a Memoir of His Life by Jonathan Edwards, David Brainerd (1830)
"So I do not dispute whether a man's doubting of his good estate, ... But yet I
think this doubting of one's good estate, is entirely a different thing from ..."
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