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Webster 1913 Edition


Dubiety

Du-bi′e-ty

,
Noun.
;
pl.
Dubieties
(#)
.
[L.
dubietas
, fr.
dubius
. See
Dubious
.]
Doubtfulness; uncertainty; doubt.
[R.]
Lamb.
“The dubiety of his fate.”
Sir W. Scott.

Webster 1828 Edition


Dubiety

DUBIETY

,
Noun.
[See Doubt.] Doubtfulness. [Little used.]

Definition 2024


dubiety

dubiety

English

Noun

dubiety (countable and uncountable, plural dubieties)

  1. (uncountable) Doubtfulness.
    • 1906, David Graham Phillips, The Fortune Hunter, ch. 18,
      Graham fell in with the scheme without a murmur of dubiety or dissent.
  2. (countable) A particular instance of doubt or uncertainty.
    • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. 2,
      And yet these grim old walls are not a dilettantism and dubiety; they are an earnest fact. It was a most real and serious purpose they were built for!
    • 1851, Thomas Carlyle, Life of John Sterling, ch. 4,
      Sterling's dubieties as to continuing at Bordeaux were quickly decided.