dubitation
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of dubitation
1400–50; late Middle English (< Middle French, Old French ) < Latin dubitātiōn- (stem of dubitātiō ), equivalent to dubitāt ( us ), past participle of dubitāre ( dubit- doubt + -ātus -ate 1 ) + -iōn- -ion
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He went; and Alf, in fearful dubitation said to himself, 'by such a chief is Munster to be governed!
From Tales from the German. Volume II. The Lichtensteins, The Sorceress, The Anabaptist by Carl Franz van der Velde
Breakfast had been taken in his own room, but afterward, with some dubitation, he had gone downstairs.
From Lewis Rand by Mary Johnston
In an agony of dubitation, as the day wore on, he was interrupted.
From Checkmate by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Q'ue scais-je? it cries, in the words of Montaigne; but in the spirit also of the Platonic Socrates, with whom such dubitation had been nothing less than a religious duty or service.
From Plato and Platonism by Walter Pater
His weakness he will show, yet also his strength; dubitation yet faith; he will hesitate, yet finally act.
From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Denton Jaques Snider
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