dubiety

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The other half would shake their heads in dubiety, and prefer not to be on visiting terms with David Hume and his wife.

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  1. noun A feeling of doubt that often results in wavering. See Synonyms at uncertainty.
  2. noun A matter of doubt.

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  • This dubiety was complicated in one instance by whispers that the model, Jade Tressing, was only dating him to help dispel growing rumours of lesbianism, but the fact that he had become such a chosen totem of heterosexuality said it all. —  Also by Christopher Brookmyre
  • The informality and dubiety of their content can be questioned. —  Law.com - Newswire
  • Her misconception, so far from being dispelled when he joined her and her father in the evening, was confirmed, for his natural gaiety was gone, and an emotional constraint, made up of love, dubiety, and hope, kept him silent even in the precious moments when Doom retired to his reflections and his book, leaving them at the other end of the room alone. —  Doom Castle
  • "You're the only gentleman I've seen to-night, sir, in a costume anything like your own There's but one of me in the Union," said the gentleman, sententious: "my spear knows no brother Thank you, sir," said the servant civilly, making off With an air of some dubiety, the little man watched him go I say!" —  The Day of Days An Extravaganza
  • The other half would shake their heads in dubiety, and prefer not to be on visiting terms with David Hume and his wife. —  The Stowmarket Mystery Or, A Legacy of Hate
 

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  1. Late Latin dubietās, from Latin dubius, doubtful; see dubious.

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  1. = Spanish dubiedad = Portuguese dubiedade = Italian dubbietà, dubbietade, dubbietate, from Latin dubieta(t-)s, from dubius, doubtful: see dubious.
 

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/djuˈbaɪɛti/
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