Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To doubt; hesitate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb rare To doubt.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
doubt .
Etymologies
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Examples
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How largely his statements are to be depended on, I more than merely dubitate.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 Various
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And I dubitate as to your diet-loaves and confectionery suiting you better than a slice of chine or sirloin, for you have a pale cheek and a pensive eye that smite me to the heart.
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But I dubitate whether this abstruser sort of speculation (though enlivened by some apposite instances from Aristophanes) would sufficiently interest your oppidan readers.
The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell 1855
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How largely his statements are to be depended on, I more than merely dubitate.
The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell 1855
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But I dubitate whether this abstruser sort of speculation (though enlivened by some apposite instances from Aristophanes) would sufficiently interest your oppidan readers.
The Biglow Papers James Russell Lowell 1855
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Vos magistri, licet pauperes sitis, ne dubitate Deae munera afferre;!
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