DOUBT, v. ([page 137]).
QUESTIONS.
1. Do we apply doubt, distrust, surmise, and suspect mostly to persons and things, or to motives and intentions? 2. Is mistrust used of persons or of things? 3. Is it used, in a favorable or an unfavorable sense?
EXAMPLES.
We do not —— that the earth moves around the sun.
Nearly every law of nature was by man first ——, then proved to be true.
I —— my own heart.
I —— that man from the outset.