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Definition of Suspicions
1. suspicion [v] - See also: suspicion
Lexicographical Neighbors of Suspicions
Literary usage of Suspicions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index, and by Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1853)
"... and that she will still find the affection of her husband rising towards her
in proportion as his doubts and suspicions vanish: For, as we have seen all ..."
2. History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain by William Hickling Prescott (1883)
"Not that, after all, this was unattended with suspicions of foul play in the ...
But suspicions were not proof. " The secret was too well guarded for any ..."
3. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1862)
"In love these vices are ; suspicions, Peace, war, and impudence, detractions,
Dreams, cares, and errors, terrors and affrights, Immodest pranks, devices, ..."
4. The Anatomy of melancholy v. 3 by Robert Burton (1875)
"In love these vices are ; suspicions, Peace, war, and impudence, detractions,
Dreams, cares, and errors, terrors and affrights, Immodest pranks, devices, ..."
5. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1889)
"... tolerance shown by Charles to the catholics, in defiance of his promise made
to the last parliament, which roused Eliot's suspicions of his government. ..."
6. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"... and to satisfy his anxious suspicions by the promiscuous execution of the
innocent and the guilty. ..."
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