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Scepticism
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Scep′tic
,Scep′tic-al
,Scep′ti-cism
, etc. }Webster 1828 Edition
Scepticism
SCEP'TICISM
,Noun.
1.
The doctrines and opinions of the Pyrrhonists or sceptical philosophers; universal doubt; the scheme of philosophy which denies the certainty of any knowledge respecting the phenomena of nature.2.
In theology, a doubting of the truth of revelation, or a denial of the divine origin of the christian religion, or of the being, perfections or truth of God.Irreligious scepticism or atheistic profaneness.
Let no despondency or timidity or secret scepticism lead any one to doubt whether this blessed prospect will be realized.
Definition 2024
scepticism
scepticism
English
Noun
scepticism (countable and uncountable, plural scepticisms)
- (British) Alternative spelling of skepticism
- Thomas Carlyle
- When, across the hundredfold poor scepticisms, trivialisms and constitutional cobwebberies of Dryasdust, you catch any glimpse of a William the Conqueror, a Tancred of Hauteville or suchlike, — do you not discern veritably some rude outline of a true God-made King […] ?
- Thomas Carlyle