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noun

Suspicion n.

The act of suspecting; the imagination or apprehension of the existence of something (esp. something wrong or hurtful) without proof, or upon very slight evidence, or upon no evidence. "Suspicions among thoughts are like bats among birds, they ever fly by twilight."

Slight degree; suggestion; hint. (Colloq.) "The features are mild but expressive, with just a suspicion... of saturnine or sarcastic humor."

Synonyms: Jealousy; distrust; mistrust; diffidence; doubt.

verb

Suspicion v. t. To view with suspicion; to suspect; to doubt. (Obs. or Low)

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Etymology of 'Suspicion'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Suspicion" Quotes from Famous Books

... first storey a narrow passage ran the whole length of the house, and innumerable doors seemed to open on each side. The murmur of voices could be heard from within, as one passed these closed portals; but one of the number, labelled Number 5, was not quite shut, and Dreda had a shrewd suspicion that it opened an inch or two wide as she passed by. Probably it gave entrance to the room from which faces had stared out on the drive; probably the same curious faces were peering forth through that ...

— Etheldreda the Ready - A School Story • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

... a very curious fact that the English Gipsies call the Scripture or Bible the Shaster, and I record this with the more pleasure, since it fully establishes Mr Borrow as the first discoverer of the word in Rommany, and vindicates him from the suspicion with which his assertion was received by Dr Pott. On this subject the latter speaks ...

— The English Gipsies and Their Language • Charles G. Leland

... you—I don't remember your name:—do you know the story of Vinje and the potato? I always think of that when I hear you speak. You are so immensely unsophisticated; you are from the country, and you think you can amaze us. You have not the slightest suspicion that your opinions are somewhat antiquated. Your opinions are those of the self-taught man. Once Vinje began to ponder over the ring in a newly cut, raw potato; being from the country, you, at least, must know that there in springtime, often, is a purple figure in a potato. ...

— Shallow Soil • Knut Hamsun

... this regular and symmetrical detail offers a suspicion of mere mechanism, yet it is no less evident that after longer study the charms of this exquisite structure tell with a lasting power. Too subtle to extort admiration at first, it bewitches a student of architecture who notes the scholarly reticence of its ...

— Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Salisbury - A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the See of Sarum • Gleeson White

... same principle that we find it so distasteful to hear one praise another for earnestness. For such praise raises a suspicion in our minds (pace the late Dr. Arnold and his following) that the praiser's attention must have been arrested by sincerity, as by something more or less unfamiliar to himself. So universally is this recognised that the world ...

— Life and Habit • Samuel Butler

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