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Webster 1828 Edition

Hesitating

HES'ITATING

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ppr.

Doubting; pausing; stammering.

Definition 2025

hesitating

hesitating

English

Alternative forms

hæsitating (archaic)

Verb

hesitating

present participle of hesitate

Noun

hesitating ‎(plural hesitatings)

hesitation
- Charles Dickens
  Miss Martin, after sundry hesitatings and coughings, with a preparatory choke or two, […] commenced a species of treble chirruping […]