Hesitation: alternatives and connections

Want of decision; want of settled purpose, or of firmness; indetermination; wavering of mind; irresolution; vacillation; hesitation.

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The state of being indecisive; unsettled state.

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The quality or state of being involuntary; unwillingness; automatism.

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Want of resolution; want of decision in purpose; a fluctuation of mind, as in doubt, or between hope and fear; irresoluteness; indecision; vacillatio…

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A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.

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Slowness; tardiness.

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To stop or pause respecting decision or action; to be in suspense or uncertainty as to a determination; as, he hesitated whether to accept the offer…

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To stop or pause respecting decision or action; to be in suspense or uncertainty as to a determination; as, he hesitated whether to accept the offer…

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To hesitate or stumble in uttering words; to speak with spasmodic repetition or pauses; to stammer.

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To hesitate or stumble in uttering words; to speak with spasmodic repetition or pauses; to stammer.

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The state of being disinclined; want of propensity, desire, or affection; slight aversion or dislike; indisposition.

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To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley.

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of Falter

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The act of hesitating, or pausing to consider; slowness in deciding; vacillation; also, the manner of one who hesitates.

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The state of being indisposed; disinclination; as, the indisposition of two substances to combine.

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Alt. of Reluctancy

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The act of vacillating; a moving one way and the other; a wavering.

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To play or move to and fro; to move one way and the other; hence, to totter; to reel; to swing; to flutter.

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of Waver

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