Word Meanings - HESITATINGLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

With hesitation or doubt.

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• HESITATION
  1. The act of hesitating; suspension of opinion or action; doubt; vacillation. 2. A faltering in speech; stammering. Swift.
• DOUBTFULLY
  In a doubtful manner. Nor did the goddess doubtfully declare. Dryden.
• DOUBT
  duten, douten, OF. duter, doter, douter, F. douter, fr. L. dubitare; 1. To waver in opinion or judgment; to be in uncertainty as to belief respecting anything; to hesitate in belief; to be undecided as to the truth of the negative or
• DOUBTFULNESS
  1. State of being doubtful. 2. Uncertainty of meaning; ambiguity; indefiniteness. " The doubtfulness of his expressions." Locke. 3. Uncertainty of event or issue. Bacon.
• DOUBTFUL
  1. Not settled in opinion; undetermined; wavering; hesitating in belief; also used, metaphorically, of the body when its action is affected by such a state of mind; as, we are doubtful of a fact, or of the propriety of a measure. Methinks I should
• DOUBTOUS
  Doubtful. Chaucer.
• DOUBTABLE
  1. Capable of being doubted; questionable. 2. Worthy of being feared; redoubtable.
• DOUBTING
  That is uncertain; that distrusts or hesitates; having doubts. -- Doubt"ing*ly, adv.
• DOUBTANCE
  State of being in doubt; uncertainty; doubt. Chaucer.
• DOUBTLESS
  Free from fear or suspicion. Pretty child, sleep doubtless and secure. Shak.
• DOUBTER
  One who doubts; one whose opinion is unsettled; one who scruples.
• DOUBTLESSLY
  Unquestionably. Beau. & Fl.
• REDOUBTABLE
  Formidable; dread; terrible to foes; as, a redoubtable hero;
• REDOUBT
  reductus, literally, a retreat, from L. reductus drawn back, retired, p. p. of reducere to lead or draw back; cf. F. réduit, also fr. LL. A small, and usually a roughly constructed, fort or outwork of varying shape, commonly erected
• MISDOUBT
  To be suspicious of; to have suspicion. I do not misdoubt my wife. Shak.
• REDOUBTING
  Reverence; honor. In redoutyng of Mars and of his glory. Chaucer.
• UNDOUBTED
  Not doubted; not called in question; indubitable; indisputable; as, undoubted proof; undoubted hero. -- Un*doubt"ed*ly, adv.
• MISDOUBTFUL
  Misgiving; hesitating. "Her misdoubtful mind." Spenser.
• UNDOUBTABLE
  Indubitable.
• REDOUBTED
  Formidable; dread. "Some redoubled knight." Spenser. Lord regent, and redoubted Burgandy. Shak.