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English

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishsuspecioun, borrowed fromLatinsuspīciō, suspīciōnem,[1] fromsuspicere, fromsub-(“up to”) withspecere(“to look at”). Perhaps partly through the influence of Old Frenchsospeçon (or rather the Anglo-Norman formsuspecioun). Equivalent tosuspect +‎-ion.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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suspicion (countable anduncountable,pluralsuspicions)

  2. The act ofsuspecting something or someone, especially of something wrong.
    • 1620,Giovanni Bocaccio, translated byJohn Florio,The Decameron, Containing an Hundred Pleaſant Nouels: Wittily Diſcourſed, Betweene Seuen Honourable Ladies, and Three Noble Gentlemen‎[1], Isaac Iaggard, Nouell 8, The Eighth Day:
      […]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 vvithoutſuſpition, no doubt to their equall ioy and contentment.
    • 1967,Barbara Sleigh,Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published1993,→ISBN, page96:
      His unruly hair was slicked down with water, and as Jessamy introduced him to Miss Brindle his face assumed a cherubic innocence which would immediately have aroused thesuspicions of anyone who knew him.
    • 1993, Octavia Butler, chapter 11, inThe Parable of the Sower:
      "When it comes to strangers with guns," I told her, "I thinksuspicion is more likely to keep you alive than trust."
    • 2009, Andrew B. Fisher, Matthew O'Hara, “Forward”, in Andrew B. Fisher, Matthew O'Hara, editors,Imperial Subjects: Race and Identity in Colonial Latin America, page 4:
      Given these entrenched ideological assumptions about the colonial order, it is no wonder that the state and those groups with an interest in the status quo viewed withsuspicion and hostility any challenges to the fixed and "natural" boundaries between different sorts of people.
  3. The condition of being suspected.
  4. Uncertainty,doubt.
    • 1892,Walter Besant, chapter III, inThe Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.:Harper & Brothers, […],→OCLC:
      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 andsuspicion.
  5. Atrace, orslightindication.
    asuspicion of a smile
    • 1879,Adolphus William Ward,Chaucer:
      The features are mild but expressive, with just asuspicion[…]of saturnine or sarcastic humor.
    • 2014 July 3, Dorothy Hartley,Food In England: A complete guide to the food that makes us who we are, Hachette UK,→ISBN:
      Keep hot for 3 minutes, then turn right side up, polish the top with asuspicion of butter, cut in quarters, and send to table.
  6. The imagining of something withoutevidence.

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Translations

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act of suspecting something or someone, especially of something wrong
condition of being suspected
uncertainty, doubt
slight indication
imagining without evidence
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Verb

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suspicion (third-person singular simple presentsuspicions,present participlesuspicioning,simple past and past participlesuspicioned)

  1. (dialect) Tosuspect; to have suspicions.
    • 1876,Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXVI, inThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company,→OCLC,page202:
      “Well, what’s more dangerous than coming here in the day time!—anybody wouldsuspicion us that saw us.”
    • 1891,Rudyard Kipling, “The Incarnation of Krishna Mulvaney”, inLife's Handicap:
      Mulvaney continued— "Whin I was full awake the palanquin was set down in a street, Isuspicioned, for I cud hear people passin' an' talkin'. But I knew well I was far from home.[…]
    • 2012, B. M. Bower,Cow-Country, page195:
      "I've beensuspicioning here was where they got their information right along," the sheriff commented, and slipped the handcuffs on the landlord.

Trivia

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One of three common words ending in-cion, which arecoercion,scion, andsuspicion.[2][3]

References

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  1. ^https://www.dictionary.com/browse/suspicion?s=t
  2. ^Notes and Queries, Vol. VI, No. 10, 1889, October,p. 365
  3. ^Editor and Publisher, Volume 9, 1909,p. 89

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French

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing fromLatinsuspiciō. Comparesoupçon, derived from a related formation but not an actual doublet.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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suspicion f (pluralsuspicions)

  1. suspicion
    Synonym:soupçon

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