Noun: suspense
| Singular | suspense |
| Plural | suspenses |
Sample Sentences
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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. [1717, Alexander Pope, Eloisa to Abelard, lines 249–252; republished in The Complete Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Boston, New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1902, page 113:]
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Ten days the prophet in suspense remain'd. [1636 (date written), John Denham, “The Destruction of Troy, an Essay upon the Second Book of Virgils Æneis”, in Poems and Translations, with The Sophy, London: […] [John Macock] for H[enry] Herringman […], published 1668, →OCLC:]
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I believe that, to the young, suspense is the most intolerable suffering. Active misery always brings with it its own power of endurance. [1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 265–266:]
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She sent us that assignment with a suspense of noon tomorrow.
Nouns inflected like suspense
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English suspense, suspence, from Anglo-Norman suspens (as in en suspens) and Old French suspens, from Latin suspēnsus. See: Middle English Nouns '
suspense', Latin Nouns '
suspēnsus'.
Verbs referencing "suspense"
Galician Nouns
suspense, Italian Nouns
suspense, Spanish Nouns
suspense.