Both Uses of
indecision
in
Hard Times
- The answer was so long in coming, though there was no indecision in it, that Tom went and leaned on the back of her chair, to contemplate the fire which so engrossed her, from her point of view, and see what he could make of it.†
Chpt 1.8 *
- 'You will understand, Mr. Harthouse,' she returned, after some indecision: she had been more or less uncertain, and troubled throughout the conversation, and yet had in the main preserved her self-contained manner; 'you will understand that if I tell you what you press to know, it is not by way of complaint or regret.†
Chpt 2.7
Definition:
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(indecision) leaving a decision unmade due to uncertainty; or a general tendency to leave decisions unmade