Doubt vs Unsurety - What's the difference?
doubt | unsurety |
Uncertainty, disbelief.
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(ambitransitive) To lack confidence in; to disbelieve, question, or suspect.
* Hooker
* Dryden
(archaic) To fear; to suspect.
* 1819 , Lord Byron, Don Juan , I.186:
(obsolete) To fear; to be apprehensive of.
* R. of Gloucester
* Shakespeare
* Spenser
(obsolete) To fill with fear; to affright.
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* Beaumont and Fletcher
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between doubt and unsurety
is that doubt is (obsolete) to fill with fear; to affright while unsurety is (obsolete) lack of surety; uncertainty; insecurity; doubt.As nouns the difference between doubt and unsurety
is that doubt is uncertainty, disbelief while unsurety is (obsolete) lack of surety; uncertainty; insecurity; doubt.As a verb doubt
is (ambitransitive) to lack confidence in; to disbelieve, question, or suspect.doubt
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* (l) (obsolete)Noun
(wikipedia doubt)- 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)- He doubted that was really what you meant.
- Even in matters divine, concerning some things, we may lawfully doubt
- To try your love and make you doubt of mine.
- He fled, like Joseph, leaving it; but there, / I doubt , all likeness ends between the pair.
- Edmond [was a] good man and doubted God.
- I doubt some foul play.
- I of doubted danger had no fear.
- The virtues of the valiant Caratach / More doubt me than all Britain.