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Doubt vs Douit - What's the difference?

doubt | douit |

As nouns the difference between doubt and douit

is that doubt is uncertainty, disbelief while douit is (guernsey) a stream or brook.

As a verb doubt

is (ambitransitive) to lack confidence in; to disbelieve, question, or suspect.

doubt

English

Alternative forms

* (l) (obsolete)

Noun

(wikipedia doubt)
  • Uncertainty, disbelief.
  • *
    • It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street.. He halted opposite the Privy Gardens, and, with his face turned skywards, listened until the sound of the Tower guns smote again on the ear and dispelled his doubts .

    Related terms

    * benefit of the doubt * beyond a shadow of a doubt * beyond doubt * beyond reasonable doubt * doubtable * doubter * doubtful * doubting Thomas * doubtless * no doubt * reasonable doubt * shadow of a doubt * self-doubt * undoubtedly * without doubt

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (ambitransitive) To lack confidence in; to disbelieve, question, or suspect.
    • He doubted that was really what you meant.
  • * Hooker
    • Even in matters divine, concerning some things, we may lawfully doubt
  • * Dryden
    • To try your love and make you doubt of mine.
  • (archaic) To fear; to suspect.
  • * 1819 , Lord Byron, Don Juan , I.186:
    • He fled, like Joseph, leaving it; but there, / I doubt , all likeness ends between the pair.
  • (obsolete) To fear; to be apprehensive of.
  • * R. of Gloucester
    • Edmond [was a] good man and doubted God.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I doubt some foul play.
  • * Spenser
    • I of doubted danger had no fear.
  • (obsolete) To fill with fear; to affright.
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  • * Beaumont and Fletcher
    • The virtues of the valiant Caratach / More doubt me than all Britain.

    Related terms

    * dubiety * dubious

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    douit

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Guernsey) A stream or brook.
  • * 1965 , (John Christopher), A Wrinkle in the Skin :
    • He crossed the douit and forced his way into the thicket.
  • * 1974 , (GB Edwards), The Book of Ebenezer Le Page , New York 2007, p. 129:
    • He said, ‘Didn't you know that every douit and every hedge and every inch and square inch of land on Guernsey is weighed and measured, and has been for centuries?’
  • * 1989 , (Stephen Birnbaum), Birnbaum's Great Britain 1990 :
    • Visitors can stroll down to the beach along wooded paths beside streams known as "douits ."
  • * 2011 , ‘Blondel turns on the style’, The Guernsey Press , 20 May 2011:
    • The pair were virtually inseparable over the front nine until Eggo’s second shot on the ninth dived into the douit short of the green not to be seen again.
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