dubiety
noun
doubtfulness; doubt.
dubieties
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pluralof dubiety.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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That is the ultimate decision;—arrived at through a welter of dubieties, counterpoisings and perilous considerations, which we now take no account of.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 12 by Thomas Carlyle
Ferdinand is in a strongish, but yet a dangerous position; and will give difficulties, and does give endless dubieties, to these high-plumed gentlemen galloping about with their spy-glasses for eight days.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 20 by Thomas Carlyle
To proceed on any other assumption would not only be to ignore the all-powerful first-night audience, but to plunge into a veritable morass of inconsistencies, dubieties and slovenlinesses.
From Play-Making A Manual of Craftsmanship by William Archer
Let us not keep on forever with our fancies and illusions, with our analysing and interpreting and circulating of complex dubieties.
From Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá by `Abdu'l-Bahá
Hence their liveliness and certainty, greater than men can reach who are concerned with the dubieties and changes of incomplete things.
From Letters from America by Rupert Brooke
