addubitation
English
Etymology
From Latin addubitātio (“doubting”), from addubitātus, perfect passive participle of addubitō (“doubt”).
Noun
addubitation (countable and uncountable, plural addubitations)
- A doubting; insinuated doubt.
- 1619, J. Denison, Heavenly Banquet, p. 353
- That this was not a vniuersall practice, it may appeare by St. Austins addubitation.
- 1619, J. Denison, Heavenly Banquet, p. 353
- (rhetoric) aporia
References
- addubitation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.