Word Meanings - UNSURETY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Want of surety; uncertainty; insecurity; doubt. Sir T. More.

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• DOUBTFULLY
  In a doubtful manner. Nor did the goddess doubtfully declare. Dryden.
• UNCERTAINTY
  1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange.
• DOUBT
  duten, douten, OF. duter, doter, douter, F. douter, fr. L. dubitare; 1. To waver in opinion or judgment; to be in uncertainty as to belief respecting anything; to hesitate in belief; to be undecided as to the truth of the negative or
• DOUBTFULNESS
  1. State of being doubtful. 2. Uncertainty of meaning; ambiguity; indefiniteness. " The doubtfulness of his expressions." Locke. 3. Uncertainty of event or issue. Bacon.
• DOUBTFUL
  1. Not settled in opinion; undetermined; wavering; hesitating in belief; also used, metaphorically, of the body when its action is affected by such a state of mind; as, we are doubtful of a fact, or of the propriety of a measure. Methinks I should
• DOUBTOUS
  Doubtful. Chaucer.
• DOUBTABLE
  1. Capable of being doubted; questionable. 2. Worthy of being feared; redoubtable.
• DOUBTING
  That is uncertain; that distrusts or hesitates; having doubts. -- Doubt"ing*ly, adv.
• SURETYSHIP
  The state of being surety; the obligation of a person to answer for the debt, default, or miscarriage of another. Bouvier.
• DOUBTANCE
  State of being in doubt; uncertainty; doubt. Chaucer.
• SURETY
  One who is bound with and for another who is primarily liable, and who is called the principal; one who engages to answer for another's appearance in court, or for his payment of a debt, or for performance of some act; a bondsman; a bail. He that
• DOUBTLESS
  Free from fear or suspicion. Pretty child, sleep doubtless and secure. Shak.
• DOUBTER
  One who doubts; one whose opinion is unsettled; one who scruples.
• DOUBTLESSLY
  Unquestionably. Beau. & Fl.
• INSECURITY
  1. The condition or quality of being insecure; want of safety; danger; hazard; as, the insecurity of a building liable to fire; insecurity of a debt. 2. The state of feeling insecure; uncertainty; want of confidence. With what insecurity of truth
• REDOUBTABLE
  Formidable; dread; terrible to foes; as, a redoubtable hero;
• UNSURETY
  Want of surety; uncertainty; insecurity; doubt. Sir T. More.
• COSURETY
  One who is surety with another.
• REDOUBT
  reductus, literally, a retreat, from L. reductus drawn back, retired, p. p. of reducere to lead or draw back; cf. F. réduit, also fr. LL. A small, and usually a roughly constructed, fort or outwork of varying shape, commonly erected
• MISDOUBT
  To be suspicious of; to have suspicion. I do not misdoubt my wife. Shak.
• NONSURETY
  Insecurity.
• REDOUBTING
  Reverence; honor. In redoutyng of Mars and of his glory. Chaucer.
• UNDOUBTED
  Not doubted; not called in question; indubitable; indisputable; as, undoubted proof; undoubted hero. -- Un*doubt"ed*ly, adv.
• MISDOUBTFUL
  Misgiving; hesitating. "Her misdoubtful mind." Spenser.
• UNDOUBTABLE
  Indubitable.