- Doubt
- Doubt Doubt, v. t.
1. To question or hold questionable; to withhold assent to;
to hesitate to believe, or to be inclined not to believe;
to withhold confidence from; to distrust; as, I have heard
the story, but I doubt the truth of it.
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To admire superior sense, and doubt their own! --Pope. [1913 Webster]
I doubt not that however changed, you keep So much of what is graceful. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
{To doubt not but}.
I do not doubt but I have been to blame. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
We doubt not now But every rub is smoothed on our way. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Note: That is, we have no doubt to prevent us from believing, etc. (or notwithstanding all that may be said to the contrary) -- but having a preventive sense, after verbs of ``doubting'' and ``denying'' that convey a notion of hindrance. --E. A. Abbott. [1913 Webster]
2. To suspect; to fear; to be apprehensive of. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
Edmond [was a] good man and doubted God. --R. of Gloucester. [1913 Webster]
I doubt some foul play. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
That I of doubted danger had no fear. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
3. To fill with fear; to affright. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
The virtues of the valiant Caratach More doubt me than all Britain. --Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
