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That is uncertain; that distrusts or hesitates; having doubts. -- Doubt"ing*ly, adv.

Reverence; honor. [Obs.] In redoutyng of Mars and of his glory. Chaucer.

Doubting; skeptical. [Obs.] Cudworth.

Firmness of mind; undoubting, steadiness; intrepidity; courage; confidence; self-reliance. Brave men meet danger with assurance. Knolles. Conversation with the world will give them knowledge and assurance. Locke.

Made sure; safe; insured; certain; indubitable; not doubting; bold to excess.

[Archaic] Be careful [Rev. Ver. "anxious"] for nothing. Phil. iv. 6. The careful plowman doubting stands. Milton.

Act of doubting; doubt. [R.] Sir T. Scott.

Having faith or trust; confident; undoubting; firm. "Fiducial reliance on the promises of God." Hammond.

Involving confidence or trust; confident; undoubting; faithful; firm; as, in a fiduciary capacity. "Fiduciary obedience." Howell.

Not doubting; unsuspecting. "Indubious confidence." Harvey.

y with and for; as, I will intercede with him for you. I to the lords will intercede, not doubting Their favorable ear. Milton.

r inclines to one persussion than to another, yet not without a mixture of incertainty or doubting. Sir M. Hale. I can not put off my opinion so easily. Shak.

Beginning; commencement. [Obs.] Doubting sad end of principle unsound. Spenser.

en. By indubitable certainty, I mean that which doth not admit of any reasonable cause of doubting. Bp. Wilkins. Men have no right to what is not reasonable. Burke.

s industriously and sincerely to perform the commands of Christ, he can have no ground of doubting but it shall prove successful to him. Hammond.

haracterized by skepticism; hesitating to admit the certainly of doctrines or principles; doubting of everything.

A doubting of the truth of revelation, or a denial of the divine origin of the Christian religion, or of the being, perfections, or truth of God. Let no . . . secret skepticism lead any one to doubt whether this blessed prospect will be realized. S. Miller.

ithout works is dead also. James ii. 26. Spirit is a substance wherein thinking, knowing, doubting, and a power of moving, do subsist. Locke.

on, as a sword, dagger, etc. "Brave Macbeth . . . with his brandished steel." Shak. While doubting thus he stood, Received the steel bathed in his brother's blood. Dryden.

There comes my master . . . over the stile, this way. Shak. Over this stile in the way to Doubting Castle. Bunyan.