Undoubting

ppl. a. (and adv.). [UN-¹ 10.]

  † 1.  Sc. Undoubted; also adv., undoubtedly. Obs.

c. 1400.  Sc. Trojan War, II. 2887. At his moder he gan Inquere Quho was his fader vndowtand.

1552.  Abp. Hamilton, Catech. (1884), 4. It is undoutand ane synfull … thing to varie and discord in materis of our faith.

  2.  Harboring no doubts; confident.

1735.  Berkeley, Free-think. in Math., § 1. Asserting with such undoubting assurance things so easily disproved.

1788.  V. Knox, Winter Even., xi. (1790), II. 71. When any man speaks with the assurance of undoubting conviction.

1810.  Scott, Lady of L., I. xxxiii. Again returned the scenes of youth, Of confident undoubting truth.

1828.  Webster, s.v., An undoubting believer.

1870.  Bryant, Iliad, IV. I. 112. All this I know in my undoubting mind.

  Hence Undoubtingness.

1857.  M. Pattison, Ess. (1889), II. 404. We can turn the history of a foreign people into doctrine … with a rapidity and undoubtingness which fail us when we attempt our own.

1871.  W. G. Ward, Ess. Philos. Theism (1884), I. 14. The mere undoubtingness of an assent … arises from mere accident.