different between doubt vs doust
doubt
English
Etymology
The verb is derived from Middle English douten (“to be in doubt, feel unsure; to be afraid or worried; to hesitate; to be confused; to have respect or reverence”) [and other forms], from Old French douter, doter, duter (compare Middle French doubter), from Latin dubit?re (“to hesitate”), the present active infinitive of dubit? (“to be uncertain, doubt; to hesitate, waver in coming to an opinion; to consider, ponder”); the further etymology is uncertain, but one theory is that dubit? may be derived from dubius (“fluctuating, wavering; doubtful, dubious, uncertain”), from duhibius (“held as two”), from duo (“two”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh? (“two”)) + habe? (“to have, hold”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *g?eh?b?- (“to grab, take”)). Although the Middle English form of the word was spelled without a b, this letter was later introduced through the influence of the Latin words dubit?re and dubit?. However, the English word continued to be pronounced without the b sound.
The noun is derived from Middle English dout, doute (“uncertain feeling; questionable point; hesitation; anxiety, fear; reverence, respect; something to be feared, danger;”) [and other forms],from Old French doute, dote, dute (“uncertain feeling, doubt”), from doter, douter, duter (“to doubt; to be afraid of, fear”) (compare Middle French doubter; modern French douter (“to doubt; to suspect”)); see further etymology above.
Displaced Old English tw?o (“doubt”) and tw?o?an (“to doubt”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: dout, IPA(key): /da?t/
- (Canada) IPA(key): /d??t/
- Rhymes: -a?t
Verb
doubt (third-person singular simple present doubts, present participle doubting, simple past and past participle doubted)
- (transitive, intransitive) To be undecided about; to lack confidence in; to disbelieve, to question.
- Synonyms: distrust, mistrust
- (transitive, archaic) To harbour suspicion about; suspect.
- (transitive, archaic) To anticipate with dread or fear; to apprehend.
- (transitive, obsolete) To fill with fear; to affright.
- (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To dread, to fear.
Conjugation
Usage notes
- This is generally a stative verb that rarely takes the continuous inflection. See Category:English stative verbs
- In archaic usage, the phrase after "doubt" is what the doubter worries may be the case; in modern usage, that phrase is what the doubter worries may not be the case. Thus the archaic "I doubt he may be lying" is equivalent to the modern "I doubt he is telling the truth."
- In Scotland the archaic usage is still current but with a meaning boadened beyond worry: to doubt something is to consider it likely, so examples include not just "I doubt he's lying," but also "I doubt we'll arrive before dark."
Derived terms
Related terms
- dubiety
- dubious
Translations
Noun
doubt (countable and uncountable, plural doubts)
- (uncountable, countable) Disbelief or uncertainty (about something); (countable) a particular instance of such disbelief or uncertainty.
- (countable, obsolete or India) A point of uncertainty; a query.
Alternative forms
- dout (obsolete)
Derived terms
Translations
References
Further reading
- doubt on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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doust
English
Noun
doust (uncountable)
- (obsolete, West Country) Dust.
Verb
doust (third-person singular simple present dousts, present participle dousting, simple past and past participle dousted)
- (obsolete, West Country) To extinguish, to destroy, to kill.
- Anonymous (1831) The Bristol Job Nott; or, Labouring Man's Friend?[1]:
- [...] the Duke of Dorset charged in the list with "not known, but supposed forty thousand per year" (charitable supposition) had when formerly in office only about 3 or £4,000, and has not now, nor when the black list was printed, any office whatever -- (Much tumult, and cries of "shame" and "doust the liars")
- Fussel, E.F. (1867) Medical Times and Gazette, page 420: “"[...] I wished the above system of drainage to be carried out, but I met with this response from an official, in many matters a man entitled to the greatest consideration:- "I found that sort of thing at a house the other day, and I soon dousted it."”
- Havergal, Francis Tebbs (1887) Herefordshire words & phrases, colloquial and archaic, about 1300 in number, current in the county: “"Him hit Jack on his head, it nearly dousted him."”
- Clynton, Richard (1889) The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer: “Look at me, mates! The glim of one of my skylights is dousted, and is battened down for ever.”
- Anonymous (1831) The Bristol Job Nott; or, Labouring Man's Friend?[1]:
- (obsolete, West Country) To dust.
- (obsolete, mining, chiefly Cornwall) To separate dust from ore.
- Lock, Charles George Warnford (1895) Economic mining: a practical handbook for the miner, the metallurgist and the merchant: “The ore is first cobbed and classed into (a) prile, (b) best dredge, and (c) crusher dredge; a is finished product; c is crushed, jigged, and huddled; b is dousted, or, after reducing in rolls to 8-mesh, dry-sifted in fine mesh hand sieves.”
Anagrams
- USDOT, douts
Middle English
Noun
doust (uncountable)
- Alternative form of dust
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