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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The fracas with Dobson had done him all the good in the world, for it had cleared the problem of dubieties and had put an edge on his temper.
From Huntingtower by John Buchan
Sterling's dubieties as to continuing at Bordeaux were quickly decided.
From Life of John Sterling by Thomas Carlyle
While this has its obvious dubieties and disadvantages, any other course would have smacked of prettification—a fate which such a book as "Yama" surely does not deserve.
From Yama: the pit by Bernard Guilbert Guerney
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
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
