suspicion

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

SUSPI'CION, noun [Latin suspicio. See Suspect.] The act of suspecting; the imagination of the existence of something without proof, or upon very slight evidence, or upon no evidence at all. suspicion often proceeds from the apprehension of evil; it is the offspring or companion of jealousy. Suspicions among thoughts, are like bats among birds; they ever fly by twilight.
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