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There was too much doubtfulness in what he was doing.

From The Guardian • Feb. 7, 2013

The party candidates in their relative degrees of surety, probability and doubtfulness are herewith presented.

From Time Magazine Archive

A wise doubtfulness prompts conservative minds to throw every mover for change upon the defensive, when liturgical interests are at stake.

From A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer by Huntington, William Reed

The doubtfulness, the strain of longing in it chimed with her own mood, which was one, perhaps, of passive wonderment.

From Love and Lucy by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

Those leaves of births following the doubtful books of Scripture, registered with such painful and needless particularity of dates, partake of the doubtfulness of their neighborhood.

From From the Easy Chair, series 2 by Curtis, George William