doubtfulness

Example Sentences

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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

I saw that doubtfulness, inconstancy, sorrow and the like, could not be in him, seeing I could my self have wish’d to have been exempted from them.

From A Discourse of a Method for the Well Guiding of Reason and the Discovery of Truth in the Sciences by Descartes, René

She sat in the absolutest quiet, of face and figure both; looking into the fire that played in the chimney, with a fixedness that perhaps told—in the beginning—of some doubtfulness of self command.

From Say and Seal, Volume I by Warner, Susan

The quality or state of being ambiguous; doubtfulness or uncertainty, particularly as to the signification of language, arising from its admitting of more than one meaning; an equivocal word or expression.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah