doubting

Etymology

verb

1. present participle and gerund of doubt

noun

1. A condition of doubt.
   A believer may be sometimes so overwhelmed with doubtings, that he may not be able to perceive an assurance in himself. 1811, Walter Marshall, The Gospel-mystery of Sanctification Opened, page 156
   Black is night's cope; But death will not appal One who, past doubtings all Waits in unhope. 1902, Thomas Hardy, In Tenebris I
   He had prepared such a fine pedestal for her, draped her in so many beautiful illusions. But if she was an elf, there was no keeping an elf on a pedestal. No sooner had he arranged her there nicely, than off she flopped in her elfish way, scattering the illusions he had attached to her, as it were, a Salome shedding her seven veils. So he fluttered between his beliefs and doubtings. [1921?], John Cournos, “Circe”, in The Wall, London: Methuen & Co. Ltd.; New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC, chapter VIII, section I, page 207