Doubt

  • 41doubt — 1. verb /daʊt/ a) To lack confidence in; to disbelieve, question, or suspect. He doubted that was really what you meant. b) To fear; to suspect …

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  • 42doubt — In the NT doubt is not intellectual agnosticism but hesitancy, a refusal to commit oneself, or even honest scruples which cause timidity (Rom. 14:23). As such it is deplored by Paul. But in the OT the book Ecclesiastes seems almost a celebration… …

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  • 43doubt — See: give the benefit of the doubt, no doubt …

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  • 44doubt —    This word (from the Latin dubitare, meaning to waiver in opinion ) refers to uncertainty about a particular fact or truth. Doubt is basically incompatible with faith, because a person cannot simultaneously believe and doubt the same truth.… …

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  • 45doubt —   Kānalua.   Also: hopo, hopohopo, āpaha; lā, ho i (particles).    ♦ There is no doubt of his going, a ole e ole kona hele (see ole).    ♦ To evoke or produce doubt, fear, anxiety, ho okānalua, ho ohopohopo …

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  • 46doubt — [13] English acquired the verb doubt from Old French doter or duter, a descendant of Latin dubitāre ‘waver, be uncertain’ (the b was reintroduced from the Latin spelling in the 15th century). Dubitāre was closely related to Latin dubius… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 47doubt — I. , sb. == fear. RG. 89, 402 II. , v. n. == be afraid. 395 B.; feel doubt. St Swithin, 105 III. , v. a. == fear. 289 β …

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  • 48doubt — v 1. suspect, distrust, be uncertain, entertain doubts, be in a state of uncertainty, not know what to think, Inf. not know which way to turn, waver; mistrust, fear, be in suspense, harbor suspicions, Inf. take with a grain of salt, Inf. smell a… …

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  • 49doubt — Uncertainty. That state of a person s mind which exists where evidence in reference to the fact to be proved fails to generate a rational belief of the existence of the fact. Rowe v Baber, 93 Ala 422, 425. See reasonable doubt …

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  • 50doubt — see when in doubt, do nowt …

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