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Dought: old variant of doubt or otherwise.
I take the word dought in the following lines from Dickens' Great Expectations to be a typo, and that instead of which doubt should have been printed:
If he had shown indifference as a master, I have no dought I should have returned the compliment as a pupil; he gave me no such excuse, and each of us did the other justice.
Or, possibly, dought is a old form of doubt, no longer part of the post-modern English vocabulary or usage.
My OALD and CEED only come so close as mentioning doughty .
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If he had shown indifference as a master, I have no dought I should have returned the compliment as a pupil; he gave me no such excuse, and each of us did the other justice.
Or, possibly, dought is a old form of doubt, no longer part of the post-modern English vocabulary or usage.
My OALD and CEED only come so close as mentioning doughty .
Ayaz Ahmed Khan
Yours Forever in, > Webmaster,
Cyberspace. > http://adic.netfirms.com/fastce/home.html
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[nq:1]I take the word dought in the following lines from Dickens' Great Expectations to be a ... [/nq] The OED entry for doubt has other, older, spellings. One of these is dought.
- [nq:1]I take the word dought in the following lines from Dickens' Great Expectations to be a ...
- [/nq] The OED entry for doubt has other, older, spellings.
- One of these is dought.
- [/nq] Doughty is not related to doubt.
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[nq:1]I take the word dought in the following lines from Dickens' Great Expectations to be a ... possibly, dought is a old form of doubt, no longer part of the post-modern English vocabulary or usage.[/nq]
The OED entry for doubt has other, older, spellings. One of these is dought.
[nq:1]My OALD and CEED only come so close as mentioning doughty .[/nq]
Doughty is not related to doubt.
The OED entry for doubt has other, older, spellings. One of these is dought.
[nq:1]My OALD and CEED only come so close as mentioning doughty .[/nq]
Doughty is not related to doubt.
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The usual spelling with a 'b' appears late in the day - a pedantic attempt to make the word show its ultimate derivation from Latin "dubitum". Similarly "debt" was once "dette". Milton (d.1674) withstood the change, knowing that the two words came via French where they had already lost their "b": you will find "dout" and "dett" in old-spelling editions of his works. He also has "amiral" for the us
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[nq:1]I take the word dought in the following lines from Dickens' Great Expectations to be a ... of the post-modern English vocabulary or usage. My OALD and CEED only come so close as mentioning doughty .[/nq]
My OED1 says that you have a sharp eye. The first two "dought" headwords are marked with an obelus for "obsolete" and with the label "Obs." These are noun and adjective forms related to
My OED1 says that you have a sharp eye. The first two "dought" headwords are marked with an obelus for "obsolete" and with the label "Obs." These are noun and adjective forms related to
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[nq:2]I take the word dought in the following ... CEED only come so close as mentioning doughty .[/nq]
[nq:1]My OED1 says that you have a sharp eye. The first two "dought" headwords are marked with an obelus for ... The third "dought" headword, not given an obelus, is: Dought, ps. t. of Dow /v./; obs. var. of Doubt, Dout.[/nq]
Ah. Thank you to you, Peter, and Alan.
Ayaz Ahmed Khan
[nq:1]My OED1 says that you have a sharp eye. The first two "dought" headwords are marked with an obelus for ... The third "dought" headword, not given an obelus, is: Dought, ps. t. of Dow /v./; obs. var. of Doubt, Dout.[/nq]
Ah. Thank you to you, Peter, and Alan.
Ayaz Ahmed Khan
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