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hæsitation

hæsitation is the archaic spelling of hesitation.

Meaning of hesitation

Noun

hesitation (countable and uncountable, plural hesitations)

  1. An act of hesitating
    Synonyms:
    cunctation
  2. Doubt; vacillation.
    • She carried out the order without hesitation.
  3. A faltering in speech; stammering.

Forms of hæsitation

pluralhæsitations

Questions about hæsitation

What is hæsitation the archaic spelling of?
Hæsitation is the archaic spelling of hesitation.

Words near hæsitation in the dictionary

  1. hæsitancy
  2. hæsitate
  3. hæsitated
  4. hæsitates
  5. hæsitating
  6. hæsitation
  7. hæsitations
  8. Hébertism
  9. Hébertist
  10. Hébertists
  11. hée

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hæsitation (page history and authors); hesitation (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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