Even in matters divine, concerning some things, we may lawfully doubt, and suspend our judgment. Hooker.

To try your love and make you doubt of mine. Dryden.

Syn. -- To waver; vacillate; fluctuate; hesitate; demur; scruple; question.

To admire superior sense, and doubt their own! Pope.

I doubt not that however changed, you keep
So much of what is graceful. Tennyson.

To doubt not but. I do not doubt but I have been to blame. Dryden.

We doubt not now
But every rub is smoothed on our way. Shak.

That is, we have no doubt to prevent us from believing, etc. (or notwithstanding all that may be said to the contrary) -- but having a preventive sense, after verbs of "doubting" and "denying" that convey a notion of hindrance. E. A. Abbott.

Edmond [was a] good man and doubted God. R. of Gloucester.

I doubt some foul play. Shak.

That I of doubted danger had no fear. Spenser.

The virtues of the valiant Caratach
More doubt me than all Britain. Beau. *** Fl.

Doubt is the beginning and the end of our efforts to know. Sir W. Hamilton.

Doubt, in order to be operative in requiring an acquittal, is not the want of perfect certainty (which can never exist in any question of fact) but a defect of proof preventing a reasonable assurance of quilt. Wharton.

Thy life shall hang in doubt before thee. Deut. xxviii. 66.

I stand in doubt of you. Gal. iv. 20.

Nor slack her threatful hand for danger's doubt. Spenser.

To every doubt your answer is the same. Blackmore.

No doubt, undoubtedly; without doubt. - - Out of doubt, beyond doubt. [Obs.] Spenser.

Syn. -- Uncertainty; hesitation; suspense; indecision; irresolution; distrust; suspicion; scruple; perplexity; ambiguity; skepticism.