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 Doubt, n.
 1. A fluctuation of mind arising from defect of knowledge or evidence; uncertainty of judgment or mind; unsettled state of opinion concerning the reality of an event, or the truth of an assertion, etc.; hesitation.
    Doubt is the beginning and the end of our efforts to know.   --Sir W. Hamilton.
    Doubt, in order to be operative in requiring an acquittal, is not the want of perfect certainty (which can never exist in any question of fact) but a defect of proof preventing a reasonable assurance of quilt.   --Wharton.
 2. Uncertainty of condition.
    Thy life shall hang in doubt before thee.   --Deut. xxviii. 66.
 3. Suspicion; fear; apprehension; dread. [Obs.]
    I stand in doubt of you.   --Gal. iv. 20.
    Nor slack her threatful hand for danger's doubt.   --Spenser.
 4. Difficulty expressed or urged for solution; point unsettled; objection.
    To every doubt your answer is the same.   --Blackmore.
 No doubt, undoubtedly; without doubt.
 Out of doubt, beyond doubt. [Obs.]
 Syn: -- Uncertainty; hesitation; suspense; indecision; irresolution; distrust; suspicion; scruple; perplexity; ambiguity; skepticism.
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