addubitation

English

Etymology

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

Noun

addubitation (countable and uncountable, plural addubitations)

1. A doubting; insinuated doubt.
   • 1619, J. Denison, Heavenly Banquet, page 353:

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

2. (rhetoric) aporia

References

• “addubitation”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.