What is "suspence"

Usage examples of "suspence".

Reason here seems to be thrown into a kind of amazement and suspence, which, without the suggestions of any sceptic, gives her a diffidence of herself, and of the ground on which she treads.

Doubt, uncertainty, suspence of judgment appear the only result of our most accurate scrutiny, concerning this subject.

Mary Higgins Clark is the author of twent-one novels of suspence, three collections of short stories, and with her daughter, Carol Higgins Clark, co-author of two Christmas novellas.

It was likewise her duty to relieve him from the suspence in which her absence would unavoidably plunge him.

Edgar, almost agonised by suspence and doubt, had escaped to the summer-house, whither he was followed by Dr.

Pity for her suspence accelerated his efforts, and he then sent for her down stairs.