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Definition of Hesitator
1. Noun. One who hesitates (usually out of fear).
Generic synonyms: Coward
Derivative terms: Hesitate, Hesitate, Hesitate, Vacillate, Waver, Waver
Definition of Hesitator
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of hesitater) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hesitator
1. [n -S]
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Literary usage of Hesitator
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1. The Mosquitoes of North and Central America and the West Indies by Leland Ossian Howard, Harrison Gray Dyar, Frederick Knab (1915)
"ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION or CULEX hesitator: $-—Proboscis moderately long, very
slightly broadened towards apex, black scaled; palpi short, black; ..."
2. The Evolution of Technic in Elizabethan Tragedy by Harriott Ely Fansler (1914)
"One would believe with Furnival ihat to Shakespeare is due the honor of the
hesitator motive—not the inception of it, as Furnival seems to imply, ..."
3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1841)
"... extricate himself at once from the fatal connexion, but the crisis was hastened
by their violence in treating a conscientious hesitator as an apostate. ..."
4. A Short Introduction to the Literature of the Bible by Richard Green Moulton (1901)
"Elijah demands to be confronted with the prophets of Baal; Ahab, always a hesitator
between Jehovah and idols, dares not refuse. ..."
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