undoubting
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English[edit]
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Adjective[edit]
undoubting (not comparable)
- (of persons, states of mind, beliefs, etc.) Experiencing or harboring no doubts; entirely confident.
- 1665, George Wither, Meditations on the Lord's Prayer, London, page 75:
- 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.
- 1787, Jonathan Edwards, Treatise concerning the religious affections, New York, N.Y.: Robert Hodge, page 196:
- And God's declared design in all this is, that the heirs of the promises might have an undoubting hope.
- 1814 July, [Jane Austen], chapter IV, in Mansfield Park: […], volume II, London: […] T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 88:
- With undoubting decision she directly began her adieus; […]
- 1919, Virginia Woolf, chapter XXIV, in Night and Day:
- 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.
- 2002 October 6, Mike Greenberg, “Guest, symphony an adept team”, in San Antonio Express-News, page 8B:
- This overstuffed, smug, showy and sentimental music can almost persuade when it is performed with undoubting conviction.
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References[edit]
- undoubting in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.
- Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
- Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.