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trepidation


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Trepidation  \Trep`i*da"tion\,  n.  [F.  tr['e]pidation,  L. 
  trepidatio,  fr  trepidare  to  hurry  with  alarm,  to  tremble, 
  from  trepidus  agitated,  disturbed,  alarmed;  cf  trepit  he 
  turns,  Gr  ?  to  turn,  E.  torture.] 
  1.  An  involuntary  trembling,  sometimes  an  effect  of 
  paralysis,  but  usually  caused  by  terror  or  fear;  quaking; 
  quivering. 
 
  2.  Hence  a  state  of  terror  or  alarm;  fear;  confusion; 
  fright;  as  the  men  were  in  great  trepidation. 
 
  3.  (Anc.  Astron.)  A  libration  of  the  starry  sphere  in  the 
  Ptolemaic  system;  a  motion  ascribed  to  the  firmament,  to 
  account  for  certain  small  changes  in  the  position  of  the 
  ecliptic  and  of  the  stars. 
 
  Syn:  Tremor;  agitation;  disturbance;  fear. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  trepidation 
  n  :  a  feeling  of  alarm  or  dread 




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