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 plural) lack of belief in or conviction about something: all his doubts about the project disappeared. 3. an unresolved difficulty, poin...
Moralsare principles of behaviour. There can be no doubt about the excellence of hismorals. We agreed that businessmoralsnowadays were very low. 2.'morality' Morality (/məræləti/) is the idea that some forms of behaviour are right and others are wrong. ...
They say the definition of ambivalence is watching your mother-in-law drive over a cliff in your new Cadillac. —David Mamet 7 There's a definition of narcissism that when a parent is narcissistic, instead of the child seeing himself reflected in the mother's face and the mother's joy, ...
The most infamous of South America's poisonous snakes are the ringed coral snake and the pit viper. Candice Millard, The River of Doubt, 2005 Clemens is famous, or maybe infamous, for his brushback pitches and in particular for his penchant for "doubling up," throwing two brushbacks in ...
(ˌ)in-ˈsər-tə-ˌtüd -ˌtyüd synonyms of incertitude : uncertainty : a : absence of assurance or confidence : doubt b : the quality or state of being unstable or insecure synonyms distrust distrustfulness doubt dubiety dubitation [ archaic ] misdoubt misgiving mistrust ...
But, among the well-established truths of which I never doubt, the fallibility of my own brain stands first. FromProject Gutenberg While denying the infallibility of the writers of the Bible the author is not unconscious of his own fallibility. ...
Indicate definition: to be a sign of; betoken; evidence; show. See examples of INDICATE used in a sentence.
And yet to even so acute a definition the obvious exception is a startling and a formidable one: some of the greatest poetry in the world is in the Authorized or King James Version of the Bible, which is not only a translation but also, as to its appearance in print, identifiable ...
This public admission of agnosticism scandalized Protagoras’s fellow Greeks. Such statements would no doubt have been received with hostility, and probably with social if not even criminal sanctions, throughout the ancient world. In most places in the modern world, on the other hand, such a sta...
The concept of reasonable doubt is not explicitly stated in theU.S. Constitution. However, one of the basic principles of the U.S. legal system is that it is worse to convict an innocent person than to let a guilty person go free. The person charged is considered innocent until proven g...