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misdoubt

verb
/mɪsˈdaʊt/UK

Etymology

From mis- + doubt.

  1. derived from doute
  2. inherited from dout
  3. derived from *gʰeh₁bʰ-✻ — “to grab, take”
  4. derived from *dwóh₁✻ — “two”
  5. derived from dubitō — “to be uncertain, doubt; to hesitate, waver in coming to an opinion; to consider, ponder”
  6. derived from douter
  7. inherited from douten — “to doubt, fear, worry”
  8. prefixed as misdoubt — “mis + doubt”

Definitions

  1. To doubt the existence or reality of.

    • And though all the windes of doctrin were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously, by licencing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength.
    • ‘Ay!’ he said. ‘I don't misdoubt it. —But twenty guineas for a bit of a paintin' as he knocked off in an hour or two—!’

  2. To have suspicions about.

    • I do not misdoubt my wife, but I would be loath to turn them together
    • "I misdoubt me much that he is a spy!" whispered one of the elder cavaliers.

  3. suspicion

    suspicion; hesitation

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA