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doubt 
  n 
1 uncertainty about the truth, fact, or existence of something (esp. in the phrases in doubt, without doubt, beyond a shadow of doubt, etc.) 
2 often pl lack of belief in or conviction about something 
all his doubts about the project disappeared  
3 an unresolved difficulty, point, etc. 
4  (Philosophy) the methodical device, esp. in the philosophy of Descartes, of identifying certain knowledge as the residue after rejecting any proposition which might, however improbably, be false 
5 Obsolete fear 
6 ♦ give (someone) the benefit of the doubt to presume (someone suspected of guilt) innocent; judge leniently 
7 ♦ no doubt almost certainly 
  vb 
8 tr; may take a clause as object to be inclined to disbelieve 
I doubt we are late  
9 tr to distrust or be suspicious of 
he doubted their motives  
10 intr to feel uncertainty or be undecided 
11 tr; may take a clause as object  (Scot) to be inclined to believe 
12 tr 
Archaic to fear 
13 ♦ I wouldn't doubt (someone)  (Irish) I would expect nothing else from (someone) 
  (C13: from Old French douter, from Latin dubitare) 
♦  doubtable  adj 
♦  doubtably  adv 
♦  doubter  n 
♦  doubtingly  adv 
Where a clause follows doubt in a positive sentence, it was formerly considered correct to use whether: (I doubt whether he will come ), but now if and that are also acceptable. In negative statements, doubt is followed by that: I do not doubt that he is telling the truth. In such sentences, but (I do not doubt but that he is telling the truth) is redundant 



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