Even in matters divine, concerning some things, we
may lawfully doubt, and suspend our judgment.
--Hooker.
To try your love and make you doubt of mine.
--Dryden.
2. To suspect; to fear; to be apprehensive. [Obs.]
Syn: To waver; vacillate; fluctuate; hesitate; demur;
scruple; question.
To admire superior sense, and doubt their own!
--Pope.
I doubt not that however changed, you keep So much
of what is graceful. --Tennyson.
I do not doubt but I have been to blame. --Dryden.
We doubt not now But every rub is smoothed on our
way. --Shak.
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. --E. A. Abbott.
2. To suspect; to fear; to be apprehensive of. [Obs.]
Edmond [was a] good man and doubted God. --R. of
Gloucester.
I doubt some foul play. --Shak.
That I of doubted danger had no fear. --Spenser.
3. To fill with fear; to affright. [Obs.]
The virtues of the valiant Caratach More doubt me
than all Britain. --Beau. & Fl.
Doubt is the beginning and the end of our efforts to
know. --Sir W.
Hamilton.
Doubt, in order to be operative in requiring an
acquittal, is not the want of perfect certainty
(which can never exist in any question of fact) but
a defect of proof preventing a reasonable assurance
of quilt. --Wharton.
2. Uncertainty of condition.
Thy life shall hang in doubt before thee. --Deut.
xxviii. 66.
3. Suspicion; fear; apprehension; dread. [Obs.]
I stand in doubt of you. --Gal. iv. 20.
Nor slack her threatful hand for danger's doubt.
--Spenser.
4. Difficulty expressed or urged for solution; point
unsettled; objection.
To every doubt your answer is the same. --Blackmore.
{No doubt}, undoubtedly; without doubt.
{Out of doubt}, beyond doubt. [Obs.] --Spenser.
Syn: Uncertainty; hesitation; suspense; indecision;
irresolution; distrust; suspicion; scruple; perplexity;
ambiguity; skepticism.