double-minded
adjective
wavering or undecided in mind.
double-mindedness
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a word derived from
double-minded.
Example Sentences
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It was Alick's fate never to meet with sympathy in his feeling of his sister's double-mindedness.
From Clever Woman of the Family by Charlotte Mary Yonge
It must not be practised half-heartedly, with "double-mindedness," nor in vain philosophizing and professions belied by deeds.
From The Making of the New Testament by Benjamin Wisner Bacon
Out of this appeared in his poetry a sort of fierce doubt or double-mindedness which cannot exist in vague and homogeneous Englishmen; something that occasionally amounted to a mixture of loving and loathing.
From Hilaire Belloc The Man and His Work by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
Even when it became necessary to make excuses for his crime, we see the same double-mindedness.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various
Oh! how I execrate myself for this double-mindedness which prevents my serving one Master and God.”
From Bethink Yourselves! by V. G. (Vladimir Grigorevich) Chertkov
