hesitate
verb (used without object)
to be reluctant or wait to act because of fear, indecision, or disinclination.
hesitater
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a word derived from
hesitate.
Example Sentences
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Lowell, no hesitater, said thank you very much and began building seven handsome neo-Georgian houses near the banks of the Charles.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Qu'arrivait-il?" continued Prony; "the rogue who gave the guess answer was soon found cutting down and selling quantities of the trees, and Buonaparte had to take the rangership from him, and reinstate the honest hesitater."
From The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 1 by Augustus J. C. Hare
All who choose the tide of nature, Freely take the downward way; But the doubtful hesitater Dare not go, yet hates to stay.
From The Communistic Societies of the United States From Personal Visit and Observation by Charles Nordhoff
