Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Suspicious or distrustful of one's self.
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Examples
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Fearful and self-suspicious as I always feel, when I seem to see an error of judgment in Shakespeare, yet I cannot reconcile the cool, and, as
Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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Fearful and self-suspicious as I always feel, when I seem to see an error of judgment in Shakspeare, yet I cannot reconcile the cool, and, as Warburton calls it, 'rational and consequential,' reflection in these lines with the anonymousness, or the alarm, of this Gentleman or
Literary Remains, Volume 2 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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