doubtfulness

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There was too much doubtfulness in what he was doing.

From The Guardian • Feb. 7, 2013

The party candidates in their relative degrees of surety, probability and doubtfulness are herewith presented.

From Time Magazine Archive

Their present lack of cash, the doubtfulness of being able to sell and deliver the horses, made ransom a glittering possibility.

From Rimrock Trail by Dunn, J. Allan, (Joseph Allan)

Thus, while we are the more strongly convinced of a Montaigne influence beginning with Hamlet, we are bound to concede the doubtfulness of any apparent influence before the Second Quarto.

From Montaigne and Shakspere by Robertson, J. M. (John Mackinnon)

When I assent to a doubtfulness, or to a probability, my assent, as such, is as complete as if I assented to a truth; it is not a certain degree of assent.

From An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent by Newman, John Henry