impugnmentn.
/ɪmˈpjuːnmənt/ The action or fact of impugning.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > [noun] > raising of doubts
questioninga1450
impugningc1450
impugnation1502
addubitation1588
impugnance1602
challenge1820
impugnment1840
1840 E. Howard Jack Ashore xlvii. (Stratm.) It must not be an impugnment to his manhood that he cried like a child.
1862 J. H. Burton Book-hunter (1863) 63 The theses on which aspirants after university honours held their disputations or impugnments.
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