hesitancy

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

HES'ITANCY, noun [See Hesitate.] A doubting; literally, a stopping of the mind; a pausing to consider; dubiousness; suspense. The reason of my hesitancy about the air is--
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