Meaning of hæsitancy | Babel Free

Definitions

Archaic spelling of hesitancy.

alt-of, archaic, countable, uncountable

Examples

“He and his men were at breakfast under their shelter⟳, their guns being without, they saw⟳ the English coming, but continued eating, & M: Winsl: telling their businesse, Alex: freely & readily, without the least hæsitancy consented to goe, giving this reason⟳ why he came not to the court before, viz., because he waited for Capt Willet’s returne from the Dutch, being desirous to speake with him first: They brought him to Mʳ Collier’s that day, & Govʳ Prince then living remote at Eastham…”

“And though I had allwaies an hæsitancy, and coldness that way, I have⟳ of late contracted a greater habit of it, by finding the strange confidence that severall men have⟳, in their different, and contrary expositions.”

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