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indubious, a.|ɪnˈdjuːbɪəs|
[f. in-3 + dubious; perh. after L. indubius not doubtful, certain.]
1. Not admitting of doubt; certain, clear, indubitable. Now rare.
1624T. James in Ussher's Lett. (1686) 319 The Decretals..will make the matter indubious. 1753S. Shuckford Creation Pref. 73 To keep clear and indubious the Articles of our Faith. 1808J. Barlow Columb. viii. 315 Gives each effect its own indubious cause. 1840Clough Amours de Voyage (1874) 238 Am I not free to attend for the ripe and indubious instinct?
†2. Feeling no doubt; free from doubt. Obs.
1665G. Harvey Advice agst. Plague 14 Hence appears the vulgar vanity, reposing an indubious confidence in a spoonful or two of those ordinary Antipestilential spirits.
Hence inˈdubiously adv., not doubtfully; clearly, certainly.
1642Sir E. Dering Sp. on Relig. xvi. 75 Epistles that are indubiously his. a1670Hacket Abp. Williams i. (1692) 38 They that..were ripe and weighty in their answers, were indubiously designed to some place of credit and profit. |