dubiety

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dubiety (countable and uncountable, plural dubieties)

(uncountable) Doubtfulness.
- 1906, David Graham Phillips, chapter 18, in The Fortune Hunter:
  Graham fell in with the scheme without a murmur of dubiety or dissent.
(countable) A particular instance of doubt or uncertainty.
- 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, chapter 2, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk):
  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, chapter 4, in The Life of John Sterling, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:
  Sterling's dubieties as to continuing at Bordeaux were quickly decided.

doubtfulness — see doubtfulness

instance of doubt