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?1535 Treat. Diuers Constit. Prouync. & Legantines xxiii. sig. F^v A man may nat call in to dout the auctoritye of the same decrees decretals or Constitucyons.

1581 T. Wilcox tr. B. de Loque Treatie Churche v. 29 When they demaunded of heretikes, from whence they came,..&c. they meant not to speake of their vocation or calling, which they neuer called into doubte or question.

1618 P. Holderus tr. J. van Oldenbarneveld Barneuel's Apol. sig. B3 They called into doubt, whether the States of Holland, and West-Frisland, had so much autoritie left them, as might warrant them to enioine the performance of the tribute and contributions imposed.

1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 43 Let me not rashly call in doubt Divine Prediction. View more context for this quotation

1731 E. Aspinwall Apology iii. 96 A judicious and impartial reader..is not overhasty in calling into doubt the truth of the fact itself, because the date of it seems differently related.

1781 Earl of Malmesbury Let. 24 Mar. in Diaries & Corr. (1844) I. 407 No one can call in doubt the authenticity of these productions.

1822 S. E. Brydges Polyanthea 100 The following words..call its existence into doubt.

a1852 H. B. Wallace Art, Scenery & Philos. (1855) 16 Modern society..has not thought of calling in doubt its own ability to display the powers of Art.

1911 Reform Advocate 25 Nov. 525/1 Their right to representative position none could call into doubt.

1962 Furrow 13 492 He could entrench himself behind traditional positions, calling in doubt the theories of modern critics and the validity of their methods.

1996 Guardian 23 Nov. 22/6 The Channel Tunnel's future had been called into doubt.