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hesitant, a.|ˈhɛzɪtənt|
[ad. L. hæsitānt-em, pres. pple. of hæsitāre to hesitate. Cf. F. hésitant.]
Hesitating; irresolute, undecided; stammering.
1647Trapp Comment. 2 Cor. v. 6 Not haesitant, or halting, as Hadrian the Emperour was. 1651Baxter Inf. Bapt. 278 Are you not here hesitant also? 1683Kennett tr. Erasm. on Folly (1709) 16 The delivery of Achilles was rough, harsh, and hesitant. 1856R. A. Vaughan Mystics (1860) I. iii. i. 52 The hesitant and conflicting conjectures of Philo. |