Definition of haesitatio
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LNS
haesitātiō, haesitātiōnis
haesito
noun (f., 3rd declension)
  1. a hesitating
  2. a stammering
  3. Mental uncertainty, irresolution, perplexity, embarrassment, hesitation
Abbreviations
haesitātio, ōnis, f. id., a hesitating (rare but good prose). Of speech, a stammering: qui timor! quae dubitatio! quanta haesitatio tractusque verborum! Cic. de Or. 2, 50, 202: deformis, Quint. 11, 2, 48.

— Mental uncertainty, irresolution, perplexity, embarrassment, hesitation (rare but class.): si facile inveneris quid dicas, noli ignoscere haesitationi meae, Cic. Fam. 3, 12, 2: non mediocris haesitatio est, hinc justitiae proposita imagine, inde pietatis, Quint. 12, 1, 40; 11, 2, 48: haesitationem attulit tempus et locus, Tac. H. 1, 39; Sen. Vit. Beat. 8, 5; Plin. Ep. 6, 27, 1.
 
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