diaporesis

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

dĭăpŏrēsis, is, f., = διαπόρησις, rhet. t. t.,

a doubting, perplexity , Aquil. Rom. 10, p. 151: est addubitatio, Mart. Cap. 5, § 523.