doubteth

Verb

doubt (third-person singular simple present doubts, present participle doubting, simple past and past participle doubted)

1. (ambitransitive) To consider questionable or unlikely; to hesitate to believe; to lack confidence in; to question.
   • He doubted that was really what you meant.

   Synonyms:

   distrust, mistrust

2. (transitive, archaic outside Scotland) To harbour suspicion about; suspect.
   • I walk by the Rule of my Maſter, you walk by the rude working of your fancies. You are counted thieves already, by the Lord of the way; therefore, I doubt you will not be found true men at the end of the way.1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC, page 40
3. (archaic, transitive) To anticipate with dread or fear; to apprehend.
   • The rest of his horsemen the Duke sent to his campe, bicause they heard a great noise there, and doubted the enimies sally, and indeede they had issued foorth thrise, but were alwaies repulsed, especially through the valiantns of the English men that the Duke left there behind him [...]1596, Philippe de Commynes, The historie of Philip de Commines Knight, Lord of Argenton, London: Ar. Hatfield, pages 50-51
4. (obsolete, transitive) To fill with fear; to affright.
   • I'll tell ye all my fears, one ſingle valour, / the vertues of the valiant Caratach / more doubts me then all Britain: [...]c. 1613 (first performance), John Fletcher, “The Tragedie of Bonduca”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act I...
5. (ambitransitive, obsolete) To dread, to fear.
   • Edmond aþelstones broþer · after him was king · / Godmon & doutede · god þoru alle þing ·[1297, Robert of Gloucester, “Edmond”, in William Aldis Wright, editor, The Metrical Chronicle of Robert of Gloucester. […] (Rerum Britannicarum Medii Aevi Scriptores; no. 86), part I (in Middle...

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