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irresolution

Noun

(plural irresolutions)

Origin

From French irrÃ©solution, from ir- + rÃ©solution (“resolution").

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According to the professed champions of that character, this conduct was a tissue of such dastardly imbecility, such heartless irresolution and such brainless inconsistency as for ever to dispose of her time-honoured claim to the credit of intelligence and courage.
After much irresolution he refused Caesar's invitations and resolved to join Pompey's forces in Greece.
From the 10th to the 13th Napoleon lay at Duben, again a prey to the most extraordinary irresolution, but on that day he thought he saw his opportunity.
Tion, too, betrayed itself in an unwonted irresolution.
The first-fruits of this passion was a volume of poems, published in 1841, entitled A Year's Life, which was inscribed by Lowell in a veiled dedication to his future wife, and was a record of his new emotions with a backward glance at the preceding period of depression and irresolution.

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