Meanings
- not comparableusuallybeliefslocationExperiencing or harboring no doubts; entirely confident.
With undoubting decision she directly began her adieus; […]
1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter IV, in Mansfield Park: […], volume II, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 884 more examples
And we shall have an undoubting assurance that that this Kingdom is in such a measure within us, as will ripen to perfection in due time.
1665, George Wither, Meditations on the Lord's Prayer, London, page 75And God's declared design in all this is, that the heirs of the promises might have an undoubting hope.
1787, Jonathan Edwards, Treatise concerning the religious affections, New York, N.Y.: Robert Hodge, page 196It was the part of a gentleman to preserve a bearing that was, as far as he could make it, the bearing of an undoubting lover.
1919, Virginia Woolf, chapter XXIV, in Night and DayThis overstuffed, smug, showy and sentimental music can almost persuade when it is performed with undoubting conviction.
2002 October 6, Mike Greenberg, “Guest, symphony an adept team”, in San Antonio Express-News, page 8B
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Germanic*un-
- Proto-West Germanic*un-
- Old Englishun-
- Middle Englishun-
- Englishun-
- Englishdoubting
- Englishundoubting
Cite this entry
undoubting. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/undoubting
“undoubting.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/undoubting. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “undoubting,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/undoubting.
Source: undoubting on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.