noun
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Disbelief or uncertainty (about something); a particular instance of such disbelief or uncertainty.
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I have doubts about how to convert this code to JavaScript.
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A point of uncertainty; a query.
verb
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To be undecided about; to lack confidence in; to disbelieve, to question.
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He doubted that was really what you meant.
synonyms
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To harbour suspicion about; suspect.
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To anticipate with dread or fear; to apprehend.
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To fill with fear; to affright.
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To dread, to fear.
Examples of doubts in a Sentence
Hell, she had serious doubts he was even human.
No wonder Alex had his doubts.
Terrible doubts rose in his soul.
Of the genuineness of the work no doubts are now entertained.
For the first time doubts as to his spiritual state seemed to have troubled him.
He had grave doubts about universal suffrage.
But, for all this, Hermann exposes his own doubts when he tells that often, as he wa g preparing to write, he heard a voice bidding him lay down the pen, "for whatever you write will be an unmixed lie."
The Midrash given by Neubauer has no doubts on this point, as the story is immediately followed by the remark - "Behold we learn how great is the power of alms and tithes!"
Fresh doubts arose as to the effect of this omission; and a correspondence on the subject took place between the British government and the government of the republic before the outbreak of hostilities in South Africa, the former maintaining that the preamble of 1881, by which alone any self government was granted, was still in force, and therefore that the suzerainty - whatever it involved - remained; the Transvaal government, on the other hand, contending that the suzerainty had been abolished by the substitution of the 1884 convention for that of 1881.
But, if our estimate of the merits of his speeches is moderated by doubts as to his right to introduce them at all, no such scruples interfere with our admiration for the skill with which he has drawn the portraits of the great men who figure in his pages.
In it he disproved the idea advanced by Gay Lussac that potassium was a compound of hydrogen, not an element; but on the other hand he cast doubts on the elementary 1 Edmund Davy (1785-1857) became professor of chemistry at Cork Institution in 1813, and at the Royal Dublin Society in 1826.
In 1289 he went to Montpellier, wrote his Ars veritatis inventiva, and removed to Genoa where he translated this treatise into Arabic. In 1291, after many timorous doubts and hesitations for which he bitterly blamed himself, Lull sailed for Tunis where he publicly preached Christianity for a year; he was finally imprisoned and expelled.
But, if we are to judge from his own statement in a letter from Heidelberg in 1846, the doubts which now actively assailed him had long been latent in his mind.
Then he was harassed by doubts whether the Turks were not in the right and the Christians in the wrong.
She is said to have persuaded him of the divine character of her commission by discovering him though disguised in the crowd of his courtiers, and by reassuring him regarding his secret doubts as to his legitimacy.
Then he talked to her on that essential part of his system, the impermanency of all things, till her doubts were cleared away, she accepted her lot, became a disciple, and entered the "first path."
If he doubts of this let him go to Egypt, and there he will find the fields swarming with mice, begot of the mud of Nylus, to the great calamity of the inhabitants."
On this last point the information supplied by Flamsteed was peculiarly gratifying to Newton; and it is obvious from the language of this part of his letter that he had still doubts of the universal application of the sesquialteral proportion.
For taking up this dangerous line of defence, and admitting his doubts about several received articles of faith, he was attacked by the Yorkist archbishop Bourchier in 1457, compelled to do penance, and shut up in a monastery for the rest of his life.
But Henrys doubts had been marvellously stimulated by the fact that he had become enamoured of another ladythe beautiful, ambitious and cunning Anne Boleyn, a niece of the duke of Norfolk, who had no intention of becoming merely the kings mistress, but aspired to be his consort.
It also removed Philips last doubts; Mary had left him her claims to the English throne, and he might, now that she was out of his path, hope to treat England like Portugal.
He revived previous doubts as to the direct Pauline origin of the Epistle to the Hebrews, called in question Peter's authorship of the first epistle, and referred the second epistle to the end of the 2nd century.
His discussion of the Trinity began (1565) with doubts of the personality of the Holy Ghost.
The high praise given to his administration may even excite some doubts as to its real excellence.
But even with regard to the expediency of such punishments we may have doubts.
It is evident that the merit of these qualities in our eyes is chiefly due to our perception of their tendency to serve the person possessed of them; so that the cynic in praising them is really exhibiting the unselfish sympathy of which he doubts the existence.
This leniency may have been partly due to doubts as to the legality of the demand for his surrender by the Hamburg authorities; but the government was probably more influenced by Cornwallis's opinion that Tandy was "a fellow of so very contemptible a character that no person in this country (Ireland) seems to care the smallest degree about him."
Moravian theology, however, soon ceased to satisfy him, and his doubts rapidly took definite shape.
A young fellow-exile and friend, Paolo Pallia, having many doubts and misgivings as to the reality of revelation and a future life, Gioberti at once set to work with La Teorica del sovrannaturale, which was his first publication (1838).
The war of independence over, after a century of fatigue, regrets and doubts, royalty and the nation, now more united and more certain of each other, resumed the methodic and utilitarian war of widening boundaries.
His correspondence as a spiritual adviser was enormous; his deserved reputation for piety and for solidity of character made him the chosen confessor to whom large numbers of men and women unburdened their doubts and their sins.
In the papal letters of the end of the 9th and the whole of the 10th century, only two or three insignificant citations of the pseudo-Isidore have been pointed out; the use of the pseudo-Isidorian forged documents did not become prevalent at Rome till about the middle of the 11th century, in consequence of the circulation of the canonical collections in which they figured; but nobody then thought of casting any doubts on the authenticity of those documents.
If his teaching as to the Church was less widely followed, it was because of doubts as to the thoroughness of his knowledge of history and as to his freedom from bias as a critic. Some hundreds of clergymen, influenced by the movement of which for ten or twelve years he was the acknowledged leader, made their submission to the Church of Rome; but a very much larger number, who also came under its influence, failed to learn from him that belief in the Church involves belief in the pope.
When Lord Exmouth sailed to coerce Algiers in 1816, he expressed doubts in a private letter whether the suppression of piracy would be acceptable to the trading community.
Although doubts have lately been cast on the authenticity of Palaeozoic Marattiaceae owing to the difficulty in distinguishing between their fructifications and the pollenbearing organs of Pteridosperms, the anatomical evidence (stem of Psaronius) strongly confirms the opinion that a considerable group of these Ferns existed.
It was not mathematics but philology which was to settle the gathering doubts of Ernest Renan.
David Dean harbored serious doubts about leaving Lydia Larkin's apartment without either contacting the police or calling an ambulance—or maybe a lawyer.
Any interpretation, however, that suggests itself is immediately assailed by doubts and equally unfounded alternatives.
When Panorama put out a program which included some Conservative backbenchers expressing doubts about the use of military force she was consumed with rage.
I suppose he must refer the client on, or (more likely) suppress his doubts with the soothing balm of rhetoric.
Although her mission is to be chief cheerleader for the European ideal, she has no doubts about being Swedish first.
The six pages are a response to doubts about his theory expressed by the campaigning Victorian clergyman the Rev William Denton.
With the arrival of fascist dictators in Europe Fenner Brockway began to have doubts about the political merits of pacifism.
Their findings cast grave doubts on the possibility of Martian life.
Even some of the Prime Minister's oldest allies are now expressing doubts.
The Tribunal attaches no weight whatsoever to her affidavit, the truth of which raises doubts in its minds.
Stock and foreign exchange markets have been plagued by doubts about the health of certain banks and corporations.
There are serious doubts about such a minister operating within the Department of Health, whose main business is the NHS.
The medical term often used to describe these strong doubts is ' gender dysphoria ' .
Moments after the initial elation come the doubts about whether you can actually do it.