dubitations

Rather, she enervates us with incessant dubitations.

Nights in London Thomas Burke 1915

I rejoined that my achievements would resolve his dubitations and debates; I was absolutely sure of being able to perform far more than I had promised for his Excellency, but that he must give me means for carrying my work out, else I could not fulfil my undertaking.

The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini Cellini, Benvenuto, 1500-1571 1910

I rejoined that my achievements would resolve his dubitations and debates; I was absolutely sure of being able to perform far more than I had promised for his Excellency, but that he must give me means for carrying my work out, else I could not fulfil my undertaking.

LIII 1909

So capital an agreement cut short all Renzo’s economical dubitations, so that he quickly decided upon business, and complied with the proposal.

Chapter XXXVIII 1909

She had Milly at lunch one day and listened attentively to all her dubitations about her husband's career.

One Woman's Life Robert Herrick 1903

Brotherhood is Brotherhood or Death; but money always will buy money's worth: in the wreck of human dubitations, this remains indubitable, that

The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

Of treble-voice whimperings or vehemence, of bass-voice growlings, dubitations; Courage screwing itself to desperate defiance; Cowardice trembling silent within barred doors; -- and all round, Dulness calmly snoring; for much Dulness, flung on its mattresses, always sleeps.

The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

The drudgeries he had to do, as novice in his Convent, all sorts of slave-work, were not his grievance: the deep earnest soul of the man had fallen into all manner of black scruples, dubitations; he believed himself likely to die soon, and far worse than die.

Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle 1838

I rejoined that my achievements would resolve his dubitations and debates; I was absolutely sure of being able to perform far more than I had promised for his

Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini Benvenuto Cellini 1535