Doubtfulness

Word DOUBTFULNESS
Character 12
Hyphenation doubt ful ness
Pronunciations N/A

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I doubt that Michelle Obama was surprised or dismayed by the boos at the Nascar rally: it's not surprising that the national doubtfulness about first ladies and the strong, accomplished women who are coming to hold the role would emerge in boos from some of the Obama administration's fiercest opponents. ❋ Unknown (2011)

There has been evidence of such doubtfulness this week after initial claims for jobless benefits exceeded forecasts in the past four weeks. ❋ Tomi Kilgore (2011)

It seemed to him that it had to do with the doubtfulness of whether or not the mortgagor will pay the debt. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The next day, March 1, doubtfulness turned to near hopelessness. ❋ Robert W. Merry (2009)

I thus cautiously confine myself to the relatively non-committal psychologised explanation and, in doing so, I thereby convey to my hearers, by Gricean implicature, just such doubtfulness concerning the correctness of Angus 'belief. ❋ Lenman, James (2009)

But, leaving aside the doubtfulness of generating 'news' this way, do the surveys really tell us anything? ❋ Brian Clegg (2009)

It is "doubtfulness or uncertainty of meaning or intention," or "Doubtfulness or uncertainty as regards interpretation," or "unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning." ❋ Unknown (2007)

On several occasions in your house I observed that whenever there was a discussion of any kind, and Diego gave his opinion, you always took it with a certain irony and doubtfulness of its truthfulness. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The imperfection of words is the doubtfulness or ambiguity of their signification, which is caused by the sort of ideas they stand for. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Now, since sounds have no natural connexion with our ideas, but have all their signification from the arbitrary imposition of men, the doubtfulness and uncertainty of their signification, which is the imperfection we here are speaking of, has its cause more in the ideas they stand for than in any incapacity there is in one sound more than in another to signify any idea: for in that regard they are all equally perfect. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The way of learning these names contributes also to their doubtfulness. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The Protestant Churches, in their fancied wisdom, gentleness, and liberality, have not only nearly ceased to call the Pope Antichrist and the Man of Sin, but in the doubtfulness of faith engendered by modern disputations, have almost ceased to view any longer Popery in its true scriptural character. ❋ Unknown (2007)

There is neither a multiplicity of simple ideas to be put together, which makes the doubtfulness in the names of mixed modes; nor a supposed, but an unknown, real essence, with properties depending thereon, the precise number whereof is also unknown, which makes the difficulty in the names of substances. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I shall more at large explain, in their particular application to our several sorts of ideas: for if we examine them, we shall find that the names of Mixed Modes are most liable to doubtfulness and imperfection, for the two first of these reasons; and the names of ❋ Unknown (2007)

But that we may not be misled in this case by that which is the danger everywhere, I mean by the doubtfulness of terms, it is fit to observe that certainty is twofold: certainty of truth and certainty of knowledge. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The way also wherein the names of mixed modes are ordinarily learned, does not a little contribute to the doubtfulness of their signification. ❋ Unknown (2007)

That then which makes doubtfulness and uncertainty in the signification of some more than other words, is the difference of ideas they stand for. ❋ Unknown (2007)

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