ETYMOLOGY
from Latin hæsitationem, noun of action from hæsitare (to hesitate) + -ous
EXAMPLE
“… he did not advance with his Army as near as, as he might have done, nor did endeavor to enforce others, nor to be enforced himself to fight, but rather went out of his direct way, which he had taken to come to Vienna, and kept for the most part in strong and commodious seats, as between the two Rivers of Sava and Drava; and if a powerful and vain glorious Prince, who professed that he had undertaken that War meerly out of a desire of glory would make use of haesitatious counsels, where the consequences were so great and so heavie; …”
From:
Politick Discourses written in Italian by Paolo Paruta, a noble Venetian, cavalier and procurator of St. Mark;
Translated by the Right Honorable Henry, Earl of Monmouth, 1657
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