dubitation

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Countess Ammiani would not for one moment have allowed the spiritual welfare of the children to hang in dubitation, awaiting their experience of life; but a certain satisfaction was shown in her faint smile when her confessor lamented over Vittoria's proud stony state of moral revolt.

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  1. The act or state of doubting; doubt; hesitation. In the scholastic disputations, dubitation was the condition of a disputant who had pronounced a matter to be doubtful and was bound to sustain that position. Dubitation is the beginning of all Knowledge. Howell, Letters, I. v. 20. The ordinary effects … might for ever after be confidently expected, without any dubitation. Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 255. In states of dubitation under impelling elements, the instinct pointing to courageous action is, besides the manlier, conjecturably the right one. Fortnightly Rev., N. S., XL. 451.

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  • A good many roads appeared to converge at that point, so that he might have wandered in either of several directions Presently he arrived at something like a decision I think this is the way I went,--I am nearly sure it is He led the way, with something of an air of dubitation, and we followed. —  The Beetle
  • Countess Ammiani would not for one moment have allowed the spiritual welfare of the children to hang in dubitation, awaiting their experience of life; but a certain satisfaction was shown in her faint smile when her confessor lamented over Vittoria's proud stony state of moral revolt. —  Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
  • He had not his match for beauty and he put to shame the sun and the resplendent moon; for he had a beaming face and black eyes of Bábilí witchery[FN#282] and aquiline nose and carnelian lips; in fine, he was perfect of attributes, the loveliest of folk of his time, sans dubitation or gainsaying. —  Arabian nights. English
  • 'Without dubitation,' cried Roland. —  Beauchamp's Career — Volume 1
  • One evening in this period of dubitation Lane remarked casually: -- —  Together
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  1. from Old French and F. dubitation = Provencal dubitatio = Spanish dubitacion = Portuguese dubitação = Italian dubitazione, from Latin dubitatio(n-), from dubitare, doubt: see dubitate, doubt.
 

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