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/ɪɹˌɛzəlˈuːʃən/
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NOUN
- the trait of being irresolute; lacking firmness of purpose
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doubt concerning two or more possible alternatives or courses of action
his indecision was only momentary but the opportunity was lost
How To Use irresolution In A Sentence
- Thus, they would criticise the Queen's feminine irresolution, female fickleness and womanly compassion towards papists and traitors.
- Tartarus; it was not so delicious at first, as now it is bitter and harsh; a cankered soul macerated with cares and discontents, taedium vitae, impatience, agony, inconstancy, irresolution, precipitate them unto unspeakable miseries. Anatomy of Melancholy
- It is not that we need any sort of patness, and there is much to be said for stories that are not tied up too neatly, but occasionally one encounters an almost wilful irresolution.
- Mental illness as agony, weakness, timidity, irresolution, nervousness and other bad habit can be corrected.
- Despite the nobility of its conception, this odyssey will end in irresolution and equivocation - as indeed it must.
- If you are victimized by a negative character, which is characterized by laziness, irresponsibility, low self-esteem, irresolution and wavering, you will lose control of your future. Dr T.P.Chia
- The second cause appears to have been, the uncertainty of our merchants where to send the goods, and who to trust, as the fear of the extension of French power took away confidence, and produced a sort of irresolution, which is always hurtful to business. An Inquiry into the Permanent Causes of the Decline and Fall of Powerful and Wealthy Nations. Designed To Shew How The Prosperity Of The British Empire May Be Prolonged
- But behind his irresolution is his hatred of bloodshed: he could whip out his sword and on a sudden kill Polonius, mistaking him for the king (Herbert), but he could not, in cold blood, make up his mind to kill and proceed to execution. The Man Shakespeare
- It was quite unnecessary to prepare me against any kind of irresolution of his. George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life
- The hour of my irresolution is past, and the period of your power is arrived. Chapter 20