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dubitation
[ doo-bi-tey-shuhn, dyoo- ]
dubitation
/ ˌdjuːbɪˈteɪʃən /
noun
- another word for doubt
Word History and Origins
Origin of dubitation1
Example Sentences
In an agony of dubitation, as the day wore on, he was interrupted.
She came in, her cheeks flushed, her eyes bright, with an excited dubitation.
Everything looked plain and straight and simple, and though old Billy more than half shook his gray head at the project, and let fall by several inches his tawny face, and took his pipe out of his mouth and cleared his throat noisily, and looked vacantly out to sea, and gave other ominous symptoms of grave internal dubitation, Dan leaped to his feet at the sudden access of new purpose, and bowled off in hot haste to tell the Bishop.
He went; and Alf, in fearful dubitation said to himself, 'by such a chief is Munster to be governed!
Perhaps this untoward state of dubitation came about from Narcissa's scornful comment.
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