irresolution

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But do the irresolutions of his old age really matter?

From Time Magazine Archive

But the solicitude of friends and the fate of Somerville, a neighbour and a poet, often compelled Shenstone to start amidst his reveries; and thus he has preserved his feelings and his irresolutions.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Disraeli, Isaac

"Then," said the widow decisively, "we ought to begin the New Year by making some irresolutions."

From The Widow To Say Nothing of the Man by Rowland, Helen

Even within its borders freedom of opinion must awaken slowly; the nation strong enough to suffer irresolutions in its outward policy has yet to appear.

From Science and Medieval Thought The Harveian Oration Delivered Before the Royal College of Physicians, October 18, 1900 by Allbutt, Sir Thomas Clifford

There will be in this sequence the consciousness of ideas, that of affirmations, that of irresolutions, that of velleities and that of volitions.

From Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil by Huggard, E.M.