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undoubting

undoubting adjective: experiencing or harboring no doubts; entirely confident.

Adjective

undoubting (not comparable)

  1. (usually, beliefs) Experiencing or harboring no doubts; entirely confident.
    • And we shall have an undoubting assurance that that this Kingdom is in such a measure within us, as will ripen to perfection in due time.1665, George Wither, Meditations on the Lord's Prayer, London, page 75
    • And God's declared design in all this is, that the heirs of the promises might have an undoubting hope.1787, Jonathan Edwards, Treatise concerning the religious affections, New York, N.Y.: Robert Hodge, page 196

Examples of undoubting in a sentence

  • With undoubting decision she directly began her adieus; […]1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter IV, in Mansfield Park: […], volume II, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC...
  • It was the part of a gentleman to preserve a bearing that was, as far as he could make it, the bearing of an undoubting lover.1919, Virginia Woolf, chapter XXIV, in Night and Day:
  • This overstuffed, smug, showy and sentimental music can almost persuade when it is performed with undoubting conviction.2002 October 6, Mike Greenberg, “Guest, symphony an adept team”, in San Antonio Express-News, page 8B:

Origin of undoubting

From un- + doubting.

Words formed from undoubting

Questions about undoubting

What does undoubting mean?
Undoubting means experiencing or harboring no doubts; entirely confident.
How do you use undoubting in a sentence?
With undoubting decision she directly began her adieus; […]
What part of speech is undoubting?
Undoubting is an adjective.

Words near undoubting in the dictionary

  1. undoubtedly
  2. undoubtedness
  3. undoubtful
  4. undoubtfully
  5. undoubtfulness
  6. undoubting
  7. undoubtingly
  8. undoubtingness
  9. undoubtlessly
  10. undouched
  11. undoughty

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