Definitions
Tense uncertainty about what will happen next.
Word origin
From Middle English suspense, suspence, from Anglo-Norman suspens (as in en suspens) and Old French suspens, from Latin suspēnsus.
Used in a sentence
“For thee the Fates, severely kind, ordain / A cool suspense from pleasure and from pain; / Thy life a long dead calm of fix'd repose; / No pulse that riots, and no blood that glows.”
“Ten days the prophet in suspense remain'd.”
“I believe that, to the young, suspense is the most intolerable suffering. Active misery always brings with it its own power of endurance.”
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