Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not dubious or doubtful; certain.
  • Not doubting; unsuspecting.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Not dubious or doubtful; certain.
  • adjective Not doubting; unsuspecting.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Not dubious or doubtful; certain.
  • adjective Not doubting; unsuspecting.

Etymologies

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Latin indubius. See in-- +‎ not, and dubious.

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Examples

  • Her pallor that morning refined the indubious coarseness of her face, and changed vulgarity into the attractive originality of a spirited character.

    London River 1915

  • Her accent was slight but indubious, yet impossible to place.

    Black Oxen Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton 1902

  • Was he appalled by her real age; could he ever get away from the indubious fact that whatever miracle science may have effected, her literal age was verging on sixty?

    Black Oxen Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton 1902

  • Am I not free to attend for the ripe and indubious instinct?

    Amours De Voyage Anonymous 1858

  • Am I not free to attend for the ripe and indubious instinct?

    Amours De Voyage Arthur Hugh Clough 1840

  • The princess 'fiancé; bridegroom-to-be; future husband, lord and master, "she explained, with indubious and positive iteration.

    Under the Rose Frederic Stewart Isham

  • The burthen of "a numeroui family was alfo to be alleviated, not only to the loweft poor, but to widows and to indubious couples in a fomewhat better way of employment.

    The Monthly Review 1795

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