ETYMOLOGY
from Latin dubitat-, participial stem of dubitare (to doubt)
EXAMPLE
“… as it shall now fare with him, the whole Future may be this way or be that. If, for example, he were to loiter dubitating, and not come; if he were to come, and fail: the whole Soldiery of France to blaze into mutiny. …”
From: The French Revolution: a History
By Thomas Carlyle, 1837
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