dubitative

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The Germans have been our masters in this species of destructive, dubitative, restorative criticism; and it is undoubtedly flattering to the historian's vanity to constitute himself a judge and arbiter in cases where tact and ingenuity may claim to sift the scattered fragment of confused narration.

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  1. Tending to doubt; doubting. [Rare.] They were engaged. She had been nibbled at, all but eaten up, while he hung dubitative; and though that was the cause of his winning her, it offended his niceness. G. Meredith, The Egoist, iii.

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  • At a later stage the 'Daily M.il' hit the nail on the head by signalling M. Zola's presence at the Oatlands Park Hotel; but so many reports having already proved erroneous, the 'M.il' was by no means certain of the accuracy of its information, and the dubitative form in which its statement was couched prevented the matter from going further. —  With Zola in England
  • Never did I hear, before or since, of such a plunge into the muddy unfathomable, on the part of little George, who was an honorable creature, and dubitative to excess: and truly this rash plunge might have cost him dear, had not he directly scrambled out again. —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia
  • The Germans have been our masters in this species of destructive, dubitative, restorative criticism; and it is undoubtedly flattering to the historian's vanity to constitute himself a judge and arbiter in cases where tact and ingenuity may claim to sift the scattered fragment of confused narration. —  Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts
  • _ _Deuteronomy_ dub. dubitative, dubitatively —  The Faerie Queene — Volume 01
  • Nor was George's seconding of important nature; most dubitative, wholly passive, you would rather say, though the River, in his quarter, lay undefended. —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 14
 

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  1. = French dubitatif = Provencal dubitatiu = Spanish Portuguese Italian dubitativo, from Late Latin dubitativus, from L. dubitare, doubt: see dubitate.
 

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