addubitation
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin addubitātio (“doubting”), from addubitātus, perfect passive participle of addubitō (“doubt”).
Noun edit
addubitation (countable and uncountable, plural addubitations)
- 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.
- (rhetoric) aporia
References edit
- “addubitation”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.