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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
dout .
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Examples
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'From their douted fires,' said Hugh, reining in to gaze.
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Besides this, on the coast of the east sea where their ships lay at rode, & where it was douted that the enimies would land, they caused towers to be erected, with spaces betwixt, out of the which the
Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (4 of 8) The Fovrth Booke Of The Historie Of England Raphael Holinshed
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Lights shone from the parlour window of "Ye Swanne" that night long after they were douted in the other houses of Wood Street.
Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea Tom Bevan
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At night, if any embers remained glowing, a few shovelfuls of this heap of white ash were thrown over them before retiring, and so the fire was "douted."
The Life of the Fields Richard Jefferies 1867
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The knight who douted nothyng his thretnynges, sayd, God be with the; do what thou mayst, I doute no more dethe than lyfe; for ail thy wordes, I wyll nat lese myne herytage.
Sir John Froissart's chronicles of England, France, Spain, Portugal, Scotland, Brittany, Flanders, and the adjoining countries; Berners, John Bourchier, Lord, 1466 or 7-1533, tr 1812
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NeitheriJ - it to be douted, but that the will of the heaufetilyfsthef Avas to'hauc the liucly image of Chrift to be fecne in Pfil.
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Thcy vCcd a memorial of y dead, leaft they fhould fecmc to haue caft away all care of them: but they did therewithall confcfl'e that they douted of their ftate.
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This alfo wc muft remem - ber that to the land of Canaan was adioyncd the pledge of the hea - ucnly dwelling: fo that it ought not at al to be douted that lacob was grafTed with the Angels into y body of Chrift that he might be par - taker of the fame life.
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Harry Shute. this is the leter i rote to the minister. the referent minister of the ferst Congrigasionel Chirch dear sir. i thougt i wood wright you and tell you how sorry i am that i sed the sassy things to you whitch i sed at the picknic last weak. i am also verry sorry indeed that i douted your word when you sed you wood give me the fifty cents. if you had been ennything but a minister i wood not have thougt you wood cheet me but i have heard my father say that ministers has so many things give to them and has so many old mades and fulish wimmen after them that they aint mutch to blaim if they forgets sumthings whitch they hadent augt to forget. you see i dident know you verry well and i thought you mite be one of them kind of ministers but i found out that you wasent when you paid me the fifty cents and done as you agreed when you promised not to grab me and lam time out of me. i was reddy for you and if you had grabed that boat i wood probly have rew so hard that you wood have been puled into the water all over. i am glad you done as you agreed and paid me. you were prety lait in doing it and i was not to blaim for thinking you wood not keep your agreement, espesially as the wimmen all told you not to pay me
Brite and Fair Worth Brehm 1899
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Dugin and old Brown willing ot sackrifise our lifes for him he needent wurry. then Aunt Sarah sed and she coodent talk verry well because she was triing to bite a thred off, i think i shall go up and tell cussen Isak that you are jest stirring him up and father sed he will not beleeve you for i told him the hoal family but me had tirned agenst him straingly becaus they thougt he has did sum dredfill thing that wont see the lite of day and that Harry and I are the only ones that stand up for him and Aunt Sarah bit off the thred with a snap and sed George Shute if i cood beleeve a single wird you say i shood be verry indignent, and father sed it is harroing to be so douted and missunderstood by them whitch is deer to you and he pertended to burst into teers and sed he wood go to bed and weap his piller sopping wet and he made up a auful face and winked at mother and went up stairs and Aunt Sarah sed to mother what a man he wood have been on the staige. he wood have beet comical Brown and Artimus Ward and Joshua Billings all to peaces, and mother she sed yes he wood but i prefir him jest as he is.
Brite and Fair Worth Brehm 1899
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