All 3 Uses of
indecision
in
Great Expectations
- Having settled that I must go to the Blue Boar, my mind was much disturbed by indecision whether or not to take the Avenger.†
Chpt 28 *
- And now I began to wonder at myself for being in the coach, and to doubt whether I had sufficient reason for being there, and to consider whether I should get out presently and go back, and to argue against ever heeding an anonymous communication, and, in short, to pass through all those phases of contradiction and indecision to which I suppose very few hurried people are strangers.†
Chpt 52
- After a little show of indecision, which there were none to see but the two or three amphibious creatures belonging to our Temple stairs, we went on board and cast off; Herbert in the bow, I steering.†
Chpt 54
Definition:
leaving a decision unmade due to uncertainty; or a general tendency to leave decisions unmade