Hesitate vs Stickle - What's the difference?
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To stop or pause respecting decision or action; to be in suspense or uncertainty as to a determination.
To stammer; to falter in speaking.
(transitive, poetic, rare) To utter with hesitation or to intimate by a reluctant manner.
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(obsolete) To act as referee or arbiter; to mediate.
To argue or struggle (for).
* 1897 , Henry James, What Maisie Knew :
To raise objections; to argue stubbornly, especially over minor or trivial matters.
(obsolete) To separate, as combatants; hence, to quiet, to appease, as disputants.
* Drayton
(obsolete) To intervene in; to stop, or put an end to, by intervening.
* Sir Philip Sidney
(obsolete) To separate combatants by intervening.
* Dryden
(obsolete) To contend, contest, or altercate, especially in a pertinacious manner on insufficient grounds.
* Hudibras
* Dryden
* Hazlitt
(UK, dialect) A shallow rapid in a river.
(UK, dialect) The current below a waterfall.
* W. Browne
Hesitate is a related term of stickle.
As verbs the difference between hesitate and stickle
is that hesitate is to stop or pause respecting decision or action; to be in suspense or uncertainty as to a determination while stickle is (obsolete) to act as referee or arbiter; to mediate.As a noun stickle is
(uk|dialect) a shallow rapid in a river.hesitate
English
Alternative forms
* (archaic)Verb
(hesitat)- He hesitated''' whether to accept the offer or not; men often '''hesitate in forming a judgment.
- (Alexander Pope)
- Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike.
Usage notes
* This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . SeeSynonyms
* deliberate * demur * doubt * falter * mammer * scruple * stammer * waverDerived terms
* hesitant * hesitationExternal links
* * *stickle
English
Verb
(en-verb)- ‘She has other people than poor little you to think about, and has gone abroad with them; so you needn't be in the least afraid she'll stickle this time for her rights.’
- Which [question] violently they pursue, / Nor stickled would they be.
- They ran to him, and, pulling him back by force, stickled that unnatural fray.
- When he [the angel] sees half of the Christians killed, and the rest in a fair way of being routed, he stickles betwixt the remainder of God's host and the race of fiends.
- Fortune, as she's wont, turned fickle, / And for the foe began to stickle .
- for paltry punk they roar and stickle
- the obstinacy with which he stickles for the wrong
Noun
(en noun)- Patient anglers, standing all the day / Near to some shallow stickle or deep bay.