Let no man, while he lives here in the world, doubt whether there is any hell or no, and thereupon live so, as if absolutely there were none. To question to be in uncertainty.Įven in matters divine, concerning some things, we may lawfully doubt and suspend our judgment, inclining neither to one side or other as, namely, touching the time of the fall both of man and angels. More than you doubt the change of it, preferĮtymology: doubter, French dubito, Latin. You that will be less fearful than discreet, He did ordain the interdicts and prohibitions which we have to making entrance of strangers, which at that time was frequent, doubting novelties and commixture of manners. T’ admire superior sense, and doubt their own. To teach vain wits a science little known, It so fell out, and so by chance it came. I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice for I stand in doubt of you. Uncertainty of condition.Īnd thy life shall hang in doubt before thee and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have no assurance of thy life.ĭeutr. William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure. Hippocrates commends the flesh of the wild sow above the tame, and no doubt but the animal is more or less healthy according to the air it lives in.Īlexander Pope. Those who have examined it, are thereby got past doubt in all the doctrines they profess. Uncertainty of mind suspense undetermined state of opinion.Ĭould any difficulty have been proposed, the resolution would have been as early as the proposal it could not have had time to settle into doubt. Samuel Johnson's Dictionary Rate this definition: 0.0 / 0 votesĮtymology: from the verb.
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