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▪ I. † ˈdoubty, a. Obs. rare.
Also 4–5 douti.
[a. OF. doutif, dotif, nom. sing. and pl. dotis; the suffix being assimilated to English -y: cf. corsy, tardy, etc.]
Doubtful; dubious; hazardous.
c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 381 In soche douty poyntes. 1388― 1 Kings x. 1 In derk and douti questiouns. 1509Hawes Past. Pleas. 17 A ful noble story, Of the doubty waye to the tower perillous. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xxi. (1632) 1014 A doubty kinde of accusation. 1679Hist. Jetzer 6 This doubty controversie.
Hence † doubtily adv., in doubt.
1654R. Whitlock Zootomia 551, I lived..anxiously, dye doubt[i]ly, and know not whether I go.
▪ II. doubty
erron. obs. form of doughty. |