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Doubter   /dˈaʊtər/   Listen
Doubter

noun
1.
Someone who habitually doubts accepted beliefs.  Synonyms: sceptic, skeptic.
2.
Someone who is doubtful or noncommittal about something.  Synonym: agnostic.






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"Doubter" Quotes from Famous Books



... reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings; I am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. I, No. 1, Nov. 1857 • Various

... The doubter may scoff, and the pessimist may croak, but even they must take hope at the picture presented in the simple and touching incident of eight Grand Army veterans, with their silvery heads bowed in sympathy, escorting the lifeless ...
— America First - Patriotic Readings • Various

... last shall vindicate the right. Crime shall be meted with its proper pain, Motes shall be taken from the doubter's sight, And fortune's general justice rendered plain. Of honest laughter there shall be no dearth, Wit shall shake hands with humor grave and sweet, Our wisdom shall not be too wise for mirth, Nor kindred follies want a fool to greet. As sometimes ...
— War Poetry of the South • Various

... of the province of the New-Netherlands, when it was under the sway of Wouter Van Twiller, otherwise called the Doubter, the people of the Manhattoes were alarmed, one sultry afternoon, just about the time of the summer solstice, by a tremendous storm of thunder and lightning. The rain descended in such torrents, as absolutely to spatter up and smoke along the ground. It seemed as if the thunder ...
— Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists • Washington Irving

... and turned them upon the doubter for the space of three minutes, but Holman was blissfully ignorant of the look which the angry archaeologist favoured him with. The youngster was watching the firelight upon the face of Miss Barbara Herndon, and his ...
— The White Waterfall • James Francis Dwyer


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