different between expression vs dubitation

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French expression, from Late Latin expressi?, expressi?nem (“a pressing out”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?sp???.?n/
• Rhymes: -???n
• Hyphenation: ex?pres?sion

Noun

expression (countable and uncountable, plural expressions)

1. The action of expressing thoughts, ideas, feelings, etc.
2. A particular way of phrasing an idea.
3. A colloquialism or idiom.

4. A facial appearance usually associated with an emotion.
   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:expression.

5. (mathematics) An arrangement of symbols denoting values, operations performed on them, and grouping symbols.
6. (biology) The process of translating a gene into a protein.
7. (programming) A piece of code in a high-level language that returns a value.
8. A specific blend of whisky.
9. (biology) The act of pressing or squeezing out.

   expression from a gland

   the expression of milk from the mammaries

10. (music) The tone of voice or sound in music.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

• expression pedal

Translations

French

Etymology

From Middle French expression, borrowed from Latin expressi?, expressi?nem (“a pressing out”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k.sp??.sj??/

Noun

expression f (plural expressions)

1. expression

Derived terms

Related terms

• exprimer

Further reading

• “expression” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Interlingua

Etymology

From Latin expressi?, expressi?nem (“a pressing out”).

Noun

expression (plural expressiones)

1. expression

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin expressi?, expressi?nem (“a pressing out”).

Noun

expression f (plural expressions)

1. (Jersey) expression

English

Alternative forms

• dubytacion [15th century]
• dubitacion, dubitatioun [16th century]

Etymology

From Late Middle English dubytacion, from Middle French dubitation, from Latin dubit?ti?.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: dyo?ob?t??sh?n, jo?ob-, IPA^(key): /dju?b??te???n/, /d?u?b??te???n/
• (US) enPR: d(y)o?ob?t??sh?n, IPA^(key): /?du.b??te?.??n/, /?dju.b??te?.??n/

Noun

dubitation (usually uncountable, plural dubitations)

1. (uncountable, archaic) The process of doubting or the state of being in doubt; hesitation, uncertainty.
   • circa 1450, Coventry Mystery Plays, page 67 (Shakespeare Society; published 1841–53):

     I [...] Alle that my progenitouris hath [...] seyn, ffeythfully beleve withowtyn alle dubytacion.

   • 1570, George Buchanan, Chamæleon, page 51:

     The Chamæleon [...] eftir sum dubitatioun come to Striueling.

   • 1867, George MacDonald, Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood, chapter 32:

     All my dubitation and distress were gone, for I had something to do, although what I could not yet tell.

2. (countable, obsolete) A thing to be doubted; a matter that calls for doubt.
   • 1545, George Joye, The Exposicion of Daniel the Prophete, chapter 12:

     The trewe inuocacion of God thorow Cryst, thei haue turned it into a dowtfull dubitacion.

3. (countable) A pang or expression of doubt.
   • 1683, John Pordage (author) and Edward Hooker (editor), Theologica Mystica, or The Mystic Divinitie of the Æternal Invisibles, page 99:

     Altercations, disputations and dubitations of, in and about Mystic Theologie.

   • 1841, Thomas Carlyle, Heroes and Hero Worship, chapter 4:

     [T]he deep earnest soul of the man had fallen into all manner of black scruples, dubitations; he believed himself likely to die soon, and far worse than die.

Synonyms

• (state of being in doubt): doubtfulness

Related terms

Translations

References

• “dubitation” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dubit?ti?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dy.bi.ta.sj??/

Noun

dubitation f (plural dubitations)

1. (literary) dubitation: the action of putting in doubt, or a state of doubt
2. (rhetoric) a figure of speech, a passage in which a writer or speaker expresses or feigns doubt, for example to forestall objections

References

“dubitation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dubit?ti?.

Noun

dubitation f (oblique plural dubitations, nominative singular dubitation, nominative plural dubitations)

1. doubt

Descendants

• English: dubitation