addubitation

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noun

A doubting; insinuated doubt.

OriginLatin addubitātio →
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Meanings

nounaddubitation (countable and uncountable, plural addubitations)

plural addubitations

  1. countableuncountableA doubting; insinuated doubt.

    That this was not a vniuersall practice, it may appeare by St. Austins addubitation.

    1619, J. Denison, Heavenly Banquet, page 353
  2. countablerhetoricuncountableaporia

Origin

  1. Latinaddubitātio“doubting”
  2. Englishaddubitation

From Latin addubitātio (“doubting”), from addubitātus, perfect passive participle of addubitō (“doubt”).

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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