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Arousing vs Doubt - What's the difference?

arousing | doubt |

As verbs the difference between arousing and doubt

is that arousing is while doubt is (ambitransitive) to lack confidence in; to disbelieve, question, or suspect.

As nouns the difference between arousing and doubt

is that arousing is (rare) an act or occurrence in which something is aroused while doubt is uncertainty, disbelief.

As an adjective arousing

is that or who arouses or arouse.

arousing

English

Verb

(head)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That or who arouses or arouse.
  • I am having very arousing thoughts.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rare) An act or occurrence in which something is aroused
  • * {{quote-book, year=1912, author=Will Levington Comfort, title=Fate Knocks at the Door, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=There is a mob in every drama--poor mob that always loses, of untimely arousings , mere bewildered strength in the wiles of strategy. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1913, author=Anna Bishop Scofield, title=Insights and Heresies Pertaining to the Evolution of the Soul, chapter=, edition=2nd ed. citation
  • , passage=These excursions of the soul into the realm of matter, thus made by and through the offices of clairvoyants and seers, the repeated arousings of the ego from its contented sleep are finally highly educational, and result in resurrecting the forces of the enfranchised being, and setting them in motion on the lines of useful work for humanity. }}

    doubt

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (obsolete)

    Noun

    (wikipedia doubt)
  • Uncertainty, disbelief.
  • *
  • It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street.. He halted opposite the Privy Gardens, and, with his face turned skywards, listened until the sound of the Tower guns smote again on the ear and dispelled his doubts .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (ambitransitive) To lack confidence in; to disbelieve, question, or suspect.
  • He doubted that was really what you meant.
  • * Hooker
  • Even in matters divine, concerning some things, we may lawfully doubt
  • * Dryden
  • To try your love and make you doubt of mine.
  • (archaic) To fear; to suspect.
  • * 1819 , Lord Byron, Don Juan , I.186:
  • He fled, like Joseph, leaving it; but there, / I doubt , all likeness ends between the pair.
  • (obsolete) To fear; to be apprehensive of.
  • * R. of Gloucester
  • Edmond [was a] good man and doubted God.
  • * Shakespeare
  • I doubt some foul play.
  • * Spenser
  • I of doubted danger had no fear.
  • (obsolete) To fill with fear; to affright.
  • *
  • * Beaumont and Fletcher
  • The virtues of the valiant Caratach / More doubt me than all Britain.