What I fancied that I read in them was doubtfulness as to my motives, and the necessity of being cautious.
I make a hurried and confused presentation, in which I manage to slur over into unintelligibility and utter doubtfulness the names of the two people made known to one another.
I have been careful not to exaggerate the doubtfulness and inconsistency of Common Sense: should it turn out to be more doubtful and inconsistent than I have represented it, my argument will only be strengthened.
The imperfection of Words is the Doubtfulness or ambiguity of their Signification, which is caused by the sort of ideas they stand for.
That then which makes doubtfulness and uncertainty in the signification of some more than other words, is the difference of ideas they stand for.
The way also wherein the names of mixed modes are ordinarily learned, does not a little contribute to the doubtfulness of their signification.
As John Manning jotted these recitals down in his note-book, he could not repress nor account for, a feeling of doubtfulness which crept over him at this point.
He could not, however, control the doubtfulness that was impressing him with regard to Eugene Pearson.
Excuse from Restitution on Account ofDoubtfulness of Obligation.
He has so often pierced beneath the shining mask of virtue and discovered the distorted visage of vice, that he has almost reached a state of general doubtfulness until results shall demonstrate the correctness of his theories.
The quality or state of being apocryphal; doubtfulness of credit or genuineness.
The quality or state of being ambiguous; doubtfulness or uncertainty, particularly as to the signification of language, arising from its admitting of more than one meaning; an equivocal word or expression.
The vague and uncertain doubtfulness which had taken possession of me did not prompt any distrust of Harry.
I did not pretend to ask her if she had written, nor to take any notice of his visit; and amid all the happiness I had with my child in my own heart, there was the most drearydoubtfulness as to what I should do.
But I rather hope it is my doubtfulness of myself, and the haste which he was in, some very great personages waiting for him without, while he was with me, that made him willing to be gone.
In fine, the Lord asks all the Apostles what men think of Him; and they answer in common so long as they set forth the doubtfulness of human ignorance.
