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Definition of Dubitation
1. n. Act of doubting; doubt.
Definition of Dubitation
1. Noun. The process of doubting or the state of being in doubt; hesitation, uncertainty. ¹
2. Noun. (countable obsolete) A thing to be doubted; a matter that calls for doubt. ¹
3. Noun. A pang or expression of doubt. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dubitation
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dubitation
Literary usage of Dubitation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elements of English Composition, Grammatical, Rhetorical, Logical, and by James Robert Boyd (1874)
"dubitation. 1. ANTICIPATION (Prolepsis), is a figure by which the speaker
anticipates an objection to what he advances, and returns an answer to it. ..."
2. Day Dreams of a Schoolmaster by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1898)
"... an indefinite foundation we build our tenses of futurity and dubitation.
Most correctly. Were dubitation to rest on firmer ground, it would cease to be ..."
3. Rob Roy by Walter Scott, David Henry Montgomery (1894)
"Gentlemen," said our Scotch oracle, after having gained, with some difficulty,
a moment's pause, "I havena much dubitation that King George weel deserves ..."
4. The Journal of Speculative Philosophy: Ed. by Wm. T. Harris edited by William Torrey Harris (1874)
"It will be seen, on slight reflection, that what is here meant is no more than
bringing forward, in a new and special point of view, the same dubitation, ..."
5. The Theological and Literary Journal (1851)
"to the winds," " without dubitation, or delay," whatever the Scriptures, interpreted
by the laws of philology, teach, when it goes " counter " to those ..."
6. The Works of Thomas Goodwin, D.D. by Thomas Goodwin (1864)
"What ! were they in a fear, in a hesitation and dubitation that Titus would do
them hurt ? No ; surely that popish interpretation of fear and trembling ..."
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