to doubt not but

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to doubt not but - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Doubt \Doubt\, v. t.
     1. To question or hold questionable; to withhold assent to;
        to hesitate to believe, or to be inclined not to believe;
        to withhold confidence from; to distrust; as, I have heard
        the story, but I doubt the truth of it.
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              To admire superior sense, and doubt their own!
                                                    --Pope.
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              I doubt not that however changed, you keep
              So much of what is graceful.          --Tennyson.
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     To doubt not but.
  
              I do not doubt but I have been to blame. --Dryden.
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              We doubt not now
              But every rub is smoothed on our way. --Shak.
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     Note: That is, we have no doubt to prevent us from believing,
           etc. (or notwithstanding all that may be said to the
           contrary) -- but having a preventive sense, after verbs
           of "doubting" and "denying" that convey a notion of
           hindrance. --E. A. Abbott.
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     2. To suspect; to fear; to be apprehensive of. [Obs.]
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              Edmond [was a] good man and doubted God. --R. of
                                                    Gloucester.
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              I doubt some foul play.               --Shak.
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              That I of doubted danger had no fear. --Spenser.
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     3. To fill with fear; to affright. [Obs.]
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              The virtues of the valiant Caratach
              More doubt me than all Britain.       --Beau. & Fl.
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