Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Doubting; inclined to doubt: as, a shy, dubitant creature.
- noun One who doubts; a doubter.
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Examples
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Horrenda res est, vix duo verba sine mendacio proferuntur: et quamvis solenniter homines ad veritatem dicendum invitentur, pejerare tamen non dubitant, ut ex decem testibus vix unus verum dicat.
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Alii dubitant an daemon possit morbus curare quos non fecit, alii negant, sed quotidiana experientia confirmat, magos magno multorum stupore morbos curare, singulas corporis parte citra impedimentum permeare, et mediis nobis ignotis curare.
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Post has itaque Imperatoris defuncti miseras exequias, nullus omnino audebit de ipso loqui coram vxoribus et filijs, et propinquis, sed nec nominare, quia per hoc putarent derogari paci, et quieti illius, qua non dubitant eum dominari, in maiori satis gloria Paradisi quam hic stetit.
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Post has itaque Imperatoris defuncti miseras exequias, nullus omnino audebit de ipso loqui coram vxoribus et filijs, et propinquis, sed nec nominare, quia per hoc putarent derogari paci, et quieti illius, qua non dubitant eum dominari, in maiori satis gloria Paradisi quam hic stetit.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Maronioe: De his qui unum ex trinitate vel unum Subsistentiam seu personam Dominum nostrum Jesus Christurn dubitant confieri, ed. AMELLI in Spicilegium
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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So she stood, focused in an intensity of soul-quivers, and I, all unrelenting, waited, though of a dim uncertainty whether, after all, it might not be only a dubitant problem.
The Re-echo Club Carolyn Wells 1902
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Scepticos imitabar, qui dubitant tantum ut dubitent, et praeter incertitudinem ipsam nihil quaerunt.
Biographia Literaria Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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Et dubitant homines serere, atque impendere curam?
Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees John Evelyn 1663
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Carptores. quod enim dubitant componere crimea 1 1»
A. Persii Flacci et Dec. Jun. Juvenalis satirae: Ad optimas editiones ... Persius, Juvenal , Sulpicia, C . Lucilius, Gaius Lucilius, Johann August Ernesti, Societas Bipontina, Johann Albert Fabricius 1785
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NonnuUi etiam - num de genuina indole dubitant, et forfsta non fine ratione.
Torberni Bergman, ... sciagraphia regni mineralis: secundum principia proxima digesti Torbern Bergman 1783
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