Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Indecision; inconstancy; instability.
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Examples
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I was finally living like a Christian, or at least the best Christian I could be, rather than all the double-talk, the double-mindedness that had so absorbed me and kept me so fundamentally, essentially unhappy.
Me, The Mob, And The Music Tommy James 2010
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I could no longer live with that hypocrisy and double-mindedness.
Me, The Mob, And The Music Tommy James 2010
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I could no longer live with that hypocrisy and double-mindedness.
Me, The Mob, And The Music Tommy James 2010
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"In our context, bowing to anxiety by ignoring that sort of double-mindedness is usually termed a ` failure of nerve,"'Jefferts Schori said.
Episcopal Head Responds To Anglican Pressure Over Gay, Lesbian Bishops 2010
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I could no longer live with that hypocrisy and double-mindedness.
Me, The Mob, And The Music Tommy James 2010
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I was finally living like a Christian, or at least the best Christian I could be, rather than all the double-talk, the double-mindedness that had so absorbed me and kept me so fundamentally, essentially unhappy.
Me, The Mob, And The Music Tommy James 2010
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I was finally living like a Christian, or at least the best Christian I could be, rather than all the double-talk, the double-mindedness that had so absorbed me and kept me so fundamentally, essentially unhappy.
Me, The Mob, And The Music Tommy James 2010
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Out of this appeared in his poetry a sort of fierce doubt or double-mindedness which cannot exist in vague and homogeneous Englishmen; something that occasionally amounted to a mixture of loving and loathing.
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As our students disentangle strand after strand of that long hidden story, we realize more and more clearly the tortuous dishonesty, the confused double-mindedness, of the times.
The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006
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She knows she can't help acquiescing in the common illusion, but she maintains her skepticism of "the general maxims of the world" and adopts a certain ironic distance, a wary double-mindedness: "I may, nay I must yield to the current of nature, in submitting to my senses and understanding; and in this blind submission I shew most perfectly my sceptical disposition and principles" (p. 269).
Warranted Christian Belief 1932- 2000
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