Most, if not all, the interjections are to be put to the credit of emotional expression, also, it may be, a number of linguistic elements expressing certain modalities, such as dubitative or potential forms, which may be interpreted as reflecting the emotional states of hesitation or doubt—attenuated fear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 2. The Elements of Speech] Reference

Par rapport à mes remarques précédentes, je suis assez dubitative sur le "plaisir" que l'on peut retirer d'une lecture sur un écran d'un roman de Proust.    From Wordnik.com.  [Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas] Reference

His look, it seemed to Mainwaring, appeared to be dubitative as to how far he dared to be frank.    From Wordnik.com.  [Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates] Reference

"No," said Tom, opening his pocket-knife and holding it over the puff, with his head on one side in a dubitative manner.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mill on the Floss] Reference

“No, ” said Tom, opening his pocket-knife and holding it over the puff, with his head on one side in a dubitative manner.    From Wordnik.com.  [VI. The Aunts and Uncles Are Coming. Book I—Boy and Girl] Reference

'That's to the very extremity how the little signora Inglese would write,' said Luigi; yet cogitating profoundly in a dubitative twinkle of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference

She had been nibbled at, all but eaten up, while he hung dubitative; and though that was the cause of his winning her, it offended his niceness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference

Captain Cumnock emerged from the inn-yard with a dubitative step, pressing a handkerchief to his nose, blinking, and scrutinizing the persistent fresh stains on it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Complete] Reference

The interest of his chronicle is greatest in the part which concerns Savonarola, though even here the peculiarly reticent and dubitative nature of the man is obvious.    From Wordnik.com.  [Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots] Reference

Veteran Arnold-Ker successfully paired with Vassallo Arguello in the court, while Huta Galung and doubles specialist Rogier Wassen integrated at a different pace, appearing slow and dubitative.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

It is not to be wondered that, in these circumstances, a mournful discouragement should have descended on the age; that men should have become more dubitative; that arts and letters should have seemed to pine upon unfertile ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction] Reference

'That's to the very extremity how the little signora Inglese would write,' said Luigi; yet cogitating profoundly in a dubitative twinkle of a second as to whether it might not be the English habit to wind up a hasty missive with an expediting oath.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vittoria — Complete] Reference

The Germans have been our masters in this species of destructive, dubitative, restorative criticism; and it is undoubtedly flattering to the historian's vanity to constitute himself a judge and arbiter in cases where tact and ingenuity may claim to sift the scattered fragment of confused narration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts] Reference

At a later stage the 'Daily M.il' hit the nail on the head by signalling M. Zola's presence at the Oatlands Park Hotel; but so many reports having already proved erroneous, the 'M.il' was by no means certain of the accuracy of its information, and the dubitative form in which its statement was couched prevented the matter from going further.    From Wordnik.com.  [With Zola in England]

I’m always dubitative when there is an avoidance to think in terms of ordinary objects in quantum physics, while using them intensively in classical physics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quantum Hyperion] Reference

Bishop's acceptance to send you an invitation; but we hear now, "he said in a dubitative and tentative way --" we hear now that it is possible that the Bishop may be lunching with you. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nebuly Coat] Reference

A dubitative interlineation in his MS., and Milton's age, seventeen, as well as the silence of his later detractors, who raked up everything which could be told to his disadvantage, concur to make us hesitate to accept a fact on so slender evidence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Milton] Reference

It would be interesting to show what are the most typical noun-forming and verb-forming elements of group II; how variously nouns may be classified (by gender; personal and non-personal; animate and inanimate; by form; common and proper); how the concept of number is elaborated (singular and plural; singular, dual, and plural; singular, dual, trial, and plural; single, distributive, and collective); what tense distinctions may be made in verb or noun (the “past, ” for instance, may be an indefinite past, immediate, remote, mythical, completed, prior); how delicately certain languages have developed the idea of “aspect”22 (momentaneous, durative, continuative, inceptive, cessative, durative-inceptive, iterative, momentaneous-iterative, durative-iterative, resultative, and still others); what modalities may be recognized (indicative, imperative, potential, dubitative, optative, negative, and a host of others23); what distinctions of person are possible (is “we, ” for instance, conceived.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 5. Form in Language: Grammatical Concepts] Reference