Both Uses of
indecision
in
Sense and Sensibility
- Restless and dissatisfied every where, her sister could never obtain her opinion of any article of purchase, however it might equally concern them both: she received no pleasure from anything; was only impatient to be at home again, and could with difficulty govern her vexation at the tediousness of Mrs. Palmer, whose eye was caught by every thing pretty, expensive, or new; who was wild to buy all, could determine on none, and dawdled away her time in rapture and indecision.†
Chpt 26
- My feelings are at present in a state of dreadful indecision; I wish to acquit you, but certainty on either side will be ease to what I now suffer.†
Chpt 29 *
Definition:
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(indecision) leaving a decision unmade due to uncertainty; or a general tendency to leave decisions unmade