Feminine

dubitation

Meaning

  1. (feminine, literary) dubitation: the action of putting in doubt, or a state of doubt
  2. (feminine, rhetoric) a figure of speech, a passage in which a writer or speaker expresses or feigns doubt, for example to forestall objections

Concepts

Translations

Pronounced as (IPA)
/dy.bi.ta.sjɔ̃/
Etymology

In summary

Borrowed from Latin dubitātiōnem.

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