• Undoubting

    Full definition of undoubting

    Adjective

    undoubting

    1. (of persons, states of mind, beliefs, etc.) Experiencing or harboring no doubts; entirely confident.
      • 1665, George Wither, Meditations on the Lord's Prayer, London, p. 75,And we shall have an undoubting assurance that that this Kingdom is in such a measure within us, as will ripen to perfection in due time.
      • 1787, Jonathan_Edwards, Treatise concerning the religious affections, Robert Hodge (New York), p. 196,And God's declared design in all this is, that the heirs of the promises might have an undoubting hope.''
      • 1814, Jane_Austen, Mansfield Park, ch. 22,With undoubting decision she directly began her adieus.
      • 1919, Virginia_Woolf, Night and Day, ch. 24,It was the part of a gentleman to preserve a bearing that was, as far as he could make it, the bearing of an undoubting lover.
      • 2002, Mike Greenberg, "Guest, symphony an adept team," San Antonio Express-News, 6 Oct., p. 8B,This overstuffed, smug, showy and sentimental music can almost persuade when it is performed with undoubting conviction.
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