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| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : skep-tuh-siz-uhm |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈskɛp təˌsɪz əm |
Definition of skepticism
Origin :- also scepticism, 1640s, from skeptic + -ism. Specifically regarding Christian religion, from 1800.
- noun doubt
- It should have amounted to identification, but there was skepticism in the the armed party.
- Extract from : « Pariah Planet » by Murray Leinster
- Primmie seemed to discern a hint of skepticism even in the cough.
- Extract from : « Galusha the Magnificent » by Joseph C. Lincoln
- Life itself is a bubble and a skepticism, and a sleep within a sleep.
- Extract from : « Essays, Second Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I resist the skepticism of our education and of our educated men.
- Extract from : « Essays, Second Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I know I love him, and no philosophy or skepticism can cheat me out of that love.
- Extract from : « Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women » by George Sumner Weaver
- I think God will forgive us our skepticism sooner than our Inquisitions.
- Extract from : « A Preface to Politics » by Walter Lippmann
- The lips had already a little curl of bitterness and skepticism.
- Extract from : « O Pioneers! » by Willa Cather
- Educated reflection and skepticism can disturb this spontaneous relation.
- Extract from : « Folkways » by William Graham Sumner
- There was interest in his mind, overlaid with skepticism, of course, but interest all the same.
- Extract from : « Wizard » by Laurence Mark Janifer (AKA Larry M. Harris)
- Nothing is so detestable as the spirit of skepticism abroad in the land to-day.
- Extract from : « Doctor Jones' Picnic » by S. E. Chapman
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