Hesitency

• hesitency → hesitancy is the correct spelling of this word. Pigott, the man who tried to incriminate Parnell with forged letters in which Parnell appeared to condone the Phoenix Park Assassinations, mispelled the word as hesitency. In court, this error was pivotal to exposing him as the forgerer → in FW HCE's stammer, or hesitency of speech, is a sign of his guilt