Suspicion

//səˈspɪʃ.ən// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act of suspecting something or someone, especially of something wrong. countable, uncountable

    "[…]purſued his vnneighbourly purpoſe in ſuch ſort: that hee being the ſtronger perſwader, and ſhe (belike) too credulous in beleeuing or elſe ouer-feeble in reſiſting, from priuate imparlance, they fell to action; and continued their cloſe fight a long while together, vnſeene and vvithout ſuſpition, no doubt to their equall ioy and contentment."

  2. 2
    being of a suspicious nature wordnet
  3. 3
    The condition of being suspected. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    doubt about someone's honesty wordnet
  5. 5
    Uncertainty, doubt. countable, uncountable

    "In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.[…]Strangers might enter the room, but they were made to feel that they were there on sufferance: they were received with distance and suspicion."

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  1. 6
    an impression that something might be the case wordnet
  2. 7
    A trace, or slight indication. countable, uncountable

    "a suspicion of a smile"

  3. 8
    the state of being suspected wordnet
  4. 9
    The imagining of something without evidence. countable, uncountable
Verb
  1. 1
    To suspect; to have suspicions. dialectal

    "“Well, what’s more dangerous than coming here in the day time!—anybody would suspicion us that saw us.”"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English suspecioun, borrowed from Latin suspīciō, suspīciōnem, from suspicere, from sub- (“up to”) with specere (“to look at”). Perhaps partly through the influence of Old French sospeçon (or rather the Anglo-Norman form suspecioun). Equivalent to suspect + -ion.

Etymology 2

From Middle English suspecioun, borrowed from Latin suspīciō, suspīciōnem, from suspicere, from sub- (“up to”) with specere (“to look at”). Perhaps partly through the influence of Old French sospeçon (or rather the Anglo-Norman form suspecioun). Equivalent to suspect + -ion.

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