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unˈdoubting, ppl. a. (and adv.)
[un-1 10.]
†1. Sc. Undoubted; also adv., undoubtedly. Obs.
c1400Sc. Trojan War ii. 2887 At his moder he gan Inquere Quho was his fader vndowtand. 1552Abp. Hamilton Catech. (1884) 4 It is undoutand ane synfull..thing to varie and discord in materis of our faith.
2. Harbouring no doubts; confident.
1735Berkeley Free-think. in Math. §1 Asserting with such undoubting assurance things so easily disproved. 1788V. Knox Winter Even. xi. (1790) II. 71 When any man speaks with the assurance of undoubting conviction. 1810Scott Lady of L. i. xxxiii, Again returned the scenes of youth, Of confident undoubting truth. 1828Webster s.v., An undoubting believer. 1870Bryant Iliad iv. I. 112 All this I know in my undoubting mind.
Hence unˈdoubtingness.
1857M. Pattison Ess. (1889) II. 404 We can turn the history of a foreign people into doctrine..with a rapidity and undoubtingness which fail us when we attempt our own. 1871W. G. Ward Ess. Philos. Theism (1884) I. 14 The mere undoubtingness of an assent..arises from mere accident. |