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語源 1

From 中期英語 doute (“doubt”). More at doubt.

名詞

dout

1. Obsolete spelling of doubt.
2. Misspelling of doubt.

語源 2

Blend of do +‎ out, from 中期英語 don ut (“do out”). Compare don, doff, dup.

動詞

dout (third-person singular simple present douts, present participle douting, simple past and past participle douted)

1. (transitive, dialectal or obsolete) To put out; quench; extinguish; douse.
   • 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii], page 86, column 1:

     Mount them, and make inciſion in their Hides, / That their hot blood may ſpin in Engliſh eyes, / And doubt them with ſuperfluous courage : ha.

   • 1893, J. Keighley Snowden, “The Angel Barmaid”, in Tales of the Yorkshire Worlds, London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, page 136:

     The fire she lit in every breast was fanned rather than douted by the rumour presently puffed abroad that she was the recipient of letters addressed in a man’s handwriting.

関連する語

• douter, a cone-shaped device with a handle for extinguishing a candle and stopping the smoke.