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hesitancy|ˈhɛzɪtənsɪ| Also 7 hæs-. [ad. L. hæsitāntia stammering, f. pres. ppl. of hæsitāre to hesitate: see -ancy.] The quality or condition of hesitating; indecision, vacillation; an instance of this.
1617J. Hales Serm. 1 It brought..a preservation against all doubt and hesitancy. 1656Heylin Surv. France 155 Without the least demure or haesitancie. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1852) I. 69 Such hesitancies as these are weeds of the richest soils. 1886Mrs. E. Lynn Linton P. Carew I. xii. 219 That perpetual hesitancy which belongs to people whose intelligence and temperament are at variance. |