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1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison VI. 115 She embraced me,..and cleared up all my self-doubtings.

1850 Morning Post 26 Sept. With the self-doubting of genius, trembling between hope and fear, Hayden himself led the performance of The Creation.

1913 T. P. C. Wilson Friendly Enemy i. 4 The ‘town’ airs..are a cloak to hide shy self-doubtings.

2016 Times (Nexis) 10 Sept. (Mag.) 53 I absolutely knew I was entitled... My mother made us know there is no self-doubting.

1658 T. Polwhele Ἀυθέντης 311 A self-doubting Christian will stand, when a self confident one will fall.

1818 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 510/2 That which is called faith among these men, is nothing more than the weak and self-doubting faith of necessity.

1917 Life 5 July 107/1 The spiritual exaltation of the self-doubting modern's discovery that danger drives out fear.

2016 Globe& Mail (Canada) (Nexis) 13 Aug. f1 The world sees Americans as self-confident, even cocksure, but they have a self-doubting, self-critical side, too.