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Definition of Hesitated
1. hesitate [v] - See also: hesitate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hesitated
Literary usage of Hesitated
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The woman in white by Wilkie Collins (1871)
"The cab drove off at the same moment—I started into the road, with some vague
idea of stopping it again, I hardly knew why— hesitated from dread of ..."
2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1894)
"179) : yet he hesitated not to provoke still further the wrath of Leicester hy
receiving a royal grant of three marcher townships which belonged to the earl ..."
3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1831)
"murder, offered his own life, and all his wealth, to supply the place of one of
his two sons ; but, while the father hesitated with equal tenderness, ..."
4. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"We have never hesitated for an instant as to the meaning of a single sentence.
In saying this, we say enough to condemn the book with a certain school. ..."
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