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The thinker's bodyguard, frisking every certainty before it walks through the door.
means Feeling or expressing uncertainty, or describing something whose truth or outcome can't be relied upon.
from From the verb 'doubt,' which English borrowed in the medieval period from Old French 'douter,' itself descended from Latin 'dubitare' — to waver, to hesitate between two choices. That 'du-' carries an old echo of 'two' (as in Latin 'duo'), the mind torn between a pair of possibilities. The silent 'b' is a later scholarly affectation, slipped back into the spelling to honor the Latin ancestor, even though English speakers had long stopped pronouncing it. The '-ful' suffix simply means 'full of' — so 'doubtful' is, quite literally, brimming with doubt.
- latin root
- From dubitare, meaning to waver between two things
- science engine
- Doubt fuels every experiment ever attempted
- descartes
- He doubted everything except the doubting itself
- two-faced word
- Linked to double, hence wavering between two minds
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