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hesitantly/hesitatingly

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0 I'm not sure I've heard hesitatingly. If you asked me for the adverb to describe "with hesitation", I think I'd only come up with hesitantly. 0-

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0 I'm not sure I've heard hesitatingly. If you asked me for the adverb to describe "with hesitation", I think I'd only come up with hesitantly. 0-
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Jane Austen uses "hesitatingly" in Mansfield Park (near the end of Chapter V). It has the exact meaning as "hesitantly" - the both mean pausing/holding back due to uncertainty (see http://www.memidex.com/hesitatingly for multiple dictionary sources). To sum up, hesitantly and hesitatingly are synonymous.
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