Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not doubting; not hesitating respecting facts; not fluctuating in uncertainty: as, an undoubting believer; an undoubting faith.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of persons, etc. Experiencing or
harboring nodoubts ; entirelyconfident .
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Examples
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Brooke himself, Churchill assured readers of his obituary, had been "joyous, fearless, versatile, deeply instructed ... ruled by high undoubting purpose."
Jill Dawson's novel about Rupert Brooke, "The Great Lover" Thomas Mallon 2010
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Lincoln wasn't so undoubting in the depths of the Civil War, nor LBJ during Vietnam.
Jackson Williams: George Bush in Retirement: "I Never Listened To Anyone But Me" 2009
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Up to this point, Hurley had been his usual undoubting self.
The Last Empress Hannah Pakula 2009
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Yet still, read aloud, to an undoubting audience by the doubtful light of the closing evening, or in silence, by a decaying taper, and amidst the solitude of a half-lighted apartment, it may redeem its character as a good ghost story.
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Yet still, read aloud, to an undoubting audience by the doubtful light of the closing evening, or in silence, by a decaying taper, and amidst the solitude of a half-lighted apartment, it may redeem its character as a good ghost story.
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Haber embodies the Western psyche: active, arrogant, science-centered, undoubting.
The Lathe of Heaven, Ursula K. Le Guin Karen Burnham 2008
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When these errors took place, they seem to have arisen from an over refined system of policy, which induced Louis to assume the appearance of undoubting confidence in those whom it was his object to overreach; for, in his general conduct, he was as jealous and suspicious as any tyrant who ever breathed.
Quentin Durward 2008
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Haber embodies the Western psyche: active, arrogant, science-centered, undoubting.
Archive 2008-04-01 Karen Burnham 2008
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Although the novelties of the moderns were never disagreeable to our desires, who have always cherished with grateful affection those who devote themselves to study and who add anything either ingenious or useful to the opinions of our forefathers, yet we have always desired with more undoubting avidity to investigate the well-tested labours of the ancients.
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Write to her at first in the undoubting tone of a lover who has every claim upon her.
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