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misdoubting

misdoubting is the present participle and gerund of misdoubt.

Meaning of misdoubt

Verb

misdoubt (third-person singular simple present misdoubts, present participle misdoubting, simple past and past participle misdoubted)

  1. (archaic, regional) To doubt the existence or reality of.
    • And though all the windes of doctrin were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously, by licencing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength.1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC
  2. (archaic, regional) To have suspicions about.
    • I do not misdoubt my wife, but I would be loath to turn them togetherc. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

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Noun

misdoubting (plural misdoubtings)

  1. doubt
    • It is a blessed consolation, to be able to lay the misdoubtings of our arrogant nature at the threshold of the dwelling-place of the Deity, from whence they shall be swept away, at the great opening of the portal, like the mists of the morning […]1823, James Fenimore Cooper, The Pioneers

Forms of misdoubting

pluralmisdoubtings

Questions about misdoubting

What does misdoubting mean?
Misdoubting means doubt.
What is misdoubting the present participle and gerund of?
Misdoubting is the present participle and gerund of misdoubt.
What part of speech is misdoubting?
Misdoubting is a noun.
What is the plural of misdoubting?
The plural of misdoubting is misdoubtings.

Words near misdoubting in the dictionary

  1. misdoubt
  2. misdoubted
  3. misdoubtest
  4. misdoubteth
  5. misdoubtful
  6. misdoubting
  7. misdoubtings
  8. misdoubts
  9. misdraft
  10. misdrafted
  11. misdrafting

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misdoubting (page history and authors); misdoubt (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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