suspicion

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the state of being suspected

   I tried to shield them from suspicion.

2. 2
   noun

   The act of suspecting something or someone, especially of something wrong.

   […]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 vvithout ſuſpition, no doubt to their equall ioy and contentment.

3. 3
   noun

   Uncertainty, doubt.

   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 and suspicion.

4. 4
   noun

   A trace, or slight indication.

   a suspicion of a smile

5. 5
   verb

   To suspect; to have suspicions.

   “Well, what’s more dangerous than coming here in the day time!—anybody would suspicion us that saw us.”

6. 6
   noun

   being of a suspicious nature

7. 7
   noun

   doubt about someone's honesty

8. 8
   noun

   an impression that something might be the case

Etymology

From Middle English suspecioun, borrowed from Latin suspīciō, suspīciōnem, from suspicere, from sub- (“up to”) with specere (“to look at”). Perhaps partly through the influence of Old French sospeçon (or rather the Anglo-Norman form suspecioun). Equivalent to suspect + -ion.