doubting

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdaʊtɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -aʊtɪŋ

Verb

doubting

1. present participle and gerund of doubt

Noun

doubting (plural doubtings)

1. A condition of doubt.
   • 1811, Walter Marshall, The Gospel-mystery of Sanctification Opened, page 156:

     A believer may be sometimes so overwhelmed with doubtings, that he may not be able to perceive an assurance in himself.

   • 1902, Thomas Hardy, In Tenebris I:

     Black is night's cope;
     But death will not appal
     One who, past doubtings all
     Waits in unhope.

   • [1921?], John Cournos, “Circe”, in The Wall, London: Methuen & Co. Ltd.; New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC, chapter VIII, section I, page 207:

     He had prepared such a fine pedestal for her, draped her in so many beautiful illusions. But if she was an elf, there was no keeping an elf on a pedestal. No sooner had he arranged her there nicely, than off she flopped in her elfish way, scattering the illusions he had attached to her, as it were, a Salome shedding her seven veils. So he fluttered between his beliefs and doubtings.