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ˈdouble-minded, a.
Having two ‘minds’; undecided or wavering in mind. † Also, formerly, having two meanings, an overt and a concealed.
1552Huloet, Dowble mynded, or of many wyttes, altriplex. 1611Bible Jas. i. 8 A double minded man is vnstable in all his wayes. 1727H. Herbert tr. Fleury's Eccl. Hist. I. 161 Thou shalt not be either double-tongued or double-minded. 1834J. H. Newman Par. Serm. (1837) I. iii. 42 It is the double-minded who find difficulties. 1961New Eng. Bible James i. 8 A man of that kind must not expect the Lord to give him anything; he is double-minded, and never can keep a steady course. Ibid. iv. 8 You who are double-minded, see that your motives are pure.
Hence double-ˈmindedness, the state of being double-minded (in either sense).
1608W. Sclater Malachy (1650) 29 Lameness Is hypocrisie, double-mindedness. 1646H. Lawrence Comm. Angells 121 Insincerity and double-mindednesse. 1654H. L'Estrange Chas. I (1655) 71 The Amphibology, the double-mindednesse of the word ‘dux’. 1881Gladstone Sp. at Leeds 7 Oct., Feeble double-mindedness that does not see its own intention. |