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Word Meanings - HESITATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of hesitating; suspension of opinion or action; doubt; vacillation. 2. A faltering in speech; stammering. Swift.

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  • STATESMANLIKE
    Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
  • QUALM
    1. Sickness; disease; pestilence; death. thousand slain and not of qualm ystorve . Chaucer. 2. A sudden attack of illness, faintness, or pain; an agony. " Qualms of heartsick agony." Milton. 3. Especially, a sudden sensation of nausea. For who,
  • STATEHOOD
    The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
  • ENDORSER
    See INDORSER
  • ASSENTATORY
    Flattering; obsequious. -- As*sent"a*to*ri*ly, adv.
  • DUBIOUSNESS
    State of being dubious.
  • AFFIRMATIVELY
    In an affirmative manner; on the affirmative side of a question; in the affirmative; -- opposed to negatively.
  • ASSERT
    self, claim, maintain; ad + serere to join or bind together. See 1. To affirm; to declare with assurance, or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate. Nothing is more shameful . . . than to assert anything to
  • HESITATION
    1. The act of hesitating; suspension of opinion or action; doubt; vacillation. 2. A faltering in speech; stammering. Swift.
  • ALLOWEDLY
    By allowance; admittedly. Shenstone.
  • ASSERTORY
    Affirming; maintaining. Arguments . . . assertory, not probatory. Jer. Taylor. An assertory, not a promissory, declaration. Bentham. A proposition is assertory, when it enounces what is known as actual. Sir W. Hamilton.
  • ASSENTER
    One who assents.
  • DISTRUSTLESS
    Free from distrust. Shenstone.
  • ALLOW
    allocare to admit as proved, to place, use; confused with OF. aloer, fr. L. allaudare to extol; ad + laudare to praise. See Local, and cf. 1. To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction. Ye allow the deeds of your fathers. Luke xi. 48. We commend
  • SCRUPLE
    twenty-fourth part of an ounce, a scruple, uneasiness, doubt, dim. of scrupus a rough or sharp stone, anxiety, uneasiness; perh. akin to 1. A weight of twenty grains; the third part of a dram. 2. Hence, a very small quantity; a particle. I will
  • MISGIVING
    Evil premonition; doubt; distrust. "Suspicious and misgivings." South.
  • ALLOWER
    1. An approver or abettor. 2. One who allows or permits.
  • DOUBTFULLY
    In a doubtful manner. Nor did the goddess doubtfully declare. Dryden.
  • DUBITATION
    Act of doubting; doubt. Sir T. Scott.
  • DECIDER
    One who decides.
  • CREBRICOSTATE
    Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
  • DENUNCIATE
    To denounce; to condemn publicly or solemnly. To denunciate this new work. Burke.
  • CALLOW
    1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
  • HALLOW
    To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed
  • SAGEBRUSH STATE
    Nevada; -- a nickname.
  • THRYFALLOW
    To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser.
  • OLD LINE STATE
    Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line.
  • ENSTATE
    See INSTATE
  • SALLOWISH
    Somewhat sallow. Dickens.
  • KATASTATE
    A substance formed by a katabolic process; -- opposed to anastate. See Katabolic.
  • REDOUBTABLE
    Formidable; dread; terrible to foes; as, a redoubtable hero;
  • BAYOU STATE
    Mississippi; -- a nickname, from its numerous bayous.
  • WALLOWER
    A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows.

 

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