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Doubting   /dˈaʊtɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Doubt  v. t.  
1.
To question or hold questionable; to withhold assent to; to hesitate to believe, or to be inclined not to believe; to withhold confidence from; to distrust; as, I have heard the story, but I doubt the truth of it. "To admire superior sense, and doubt their own!" "I doubt not that however changed, you keep So much of what is graceful."
To doubt not but. "I do not doubt but I have been to blame." "We doubt not now But every rub is smoothed on our way." Note: That is, we have no doubt to prevent us from believing, etc. (or notwithstanding all that may be said to the contrary) but having a preventive sense, after verbs of "doubting" and "denying" that convey a notion of hindrance.
2.
To suspect; to fear; to be apprehensive of. (Obs.) "Edmond (was a) good man and doubted God." "I doubt some foul play." "That I of doubted danger had no fear."
3.
To fill with fear; to affright. (Obs.) "The virtues of the valiant Caratach More doubt me than all Britain."



Doubt  v. i.  (past & past part. doubted; pres. part. doubting)  
1.
To waver in opinion or judgment; to be in uncertainty as to belief respecting anything; to hesitate in belief; to be undecided as to the truth of the negative or the affirmative proposition; to b e undetermined. "Even in matters divine, concerning some things, we may lawfully doubt, and suspend our judgment." "To try your love and make you doubt of mine."
2.
To suspect; to fear; to be apprehensive. (Obs.)
Synonyms: To waver; vacillate; fluctuate; hesitate; demur; scruple; question.



adjective
Doubting  adj.  That is uncertain; that distrusts or hesitates; having doubts.






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"Doubting" Quotes from Famous Books



... irony of drama. In a play named Her Advocate, by Mr. Walter Frith (founded on one of Grenville Murray's French Pictures in English Chalk), a K.C. has fallen madly in love with a woman whose defence he has undertaken. He believes passionately in her innocence, and, never doubting that she loves him in return, he is determined to secure for her a triumphant acquittal. Just at the crucial moment, however, he learns that she loves another man; and, overwhelmed by this disillusion, ...
— Play-Making - A Manual of Craftsmanship • William Archer

... they sat, hand in hand, facing the future. Hot tears were streaming down the man's cheeks. They fell sparkling like drops of dew upon her brown curls. But he made no complaint. The girl, obedient to the vision, was reaping her reward. He, timid, wavering, doubting, was left, still pecking at the shell of his dreary environment. It was but the working of the infinite law of cause and effect. But did he imagine that out in the world she would not still find tribulation, even as the Saviour had said? Aye, she would, in abundance! But she leaned on her sustaining ...
— Carmen Ariza • Charles Francis Stocking

... treasures of the skies. Yet o'er her bright and beauteous brow Shade after shade is passing now, Like clouds across the pale moon glancing, As thought on rapid thought advancing, Thrills through the maiden's trembling breast, Not doubting, and yet not at rest. Not doubting! Man may turn away And scoff at shrines, where yesterday He knelt, in earnest faith, to pray, And wealth may lose its charm for him, And fame's alluring star grow dim, Devotion, avarice, glory, all The pageantries of earth may pall; But love is of a higher ...
— Mazelli, and Other Poems • George W. Sands

... 'tis the same with all earthly affairs, And pleasure gives place to a dark crowd of cares. The Trees were all lively, the Beasts were content, And the beautiful Birds on their pleasure were bent, Nothing doubting the multitude, struck with amaze, Came to gaze on their beauty and speak in their praise When they saw that the crowd by degrees had retired, And that they left alone were no longer admired; They gazed on the Booths that were aptly design'd To display the fair ...
— The Peacock 'At Home' AND The Butterfly's Ball AND The Fancy Fair • Catherine Ann Dorset

... galleys, and encouraged them to engage; yet they did not perfectly assent to him, till a galley of Tenos, which deserted from the Persians, of which Panaetius was commander, came in, while they were still doubting, and confirmed the news that all the straits and passages were beset; and then their rage and fury, as well as their necessity; ...
— Plutarch's Lives • A.H. Clough


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