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trepidation

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English

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WOTD – 9 March 2008

Etymology

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Borrowed fromLatintrepidātiō, fromtrepidō(“be agitated”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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trepidation (countable anduncountable,pluraltrepidations)

  1. Anxiety over theuncertainfuture orpossibleill-occurrence.
    Synonyms:agitation,apprehension,consternation,fear,hesitation,worry
    I decided, with considerabletrepidation, to let him drive my car without me.
    • 1915,Edgar Jepson, “The Reluctant Duke”, inHappy Pollyooly: The Rich Little Poor Girl, Indianapolis, Ind.:Bobbs-Merrill Company,→OCLC,page135:
      She reached it soon after half-past two. She found its gloomy nineteenth-century façade, black with the smuts of ninety years, a little daunting, and mounted its broad steps in sometrepidation. But she rang the bell hard and knocked firmly.
    • 1929,M. Barnard Eldershaw, chapter VII, inA House is Built:
      She opened the drawing-room door intrepidation. Would she find Esther drowned with her head in the goldfish bowl, or hanged from the chandelier by her stay-lace?
    • 1990,Chris Lowe,Neil Tennant, “Being Boring”, performed byPet Shop Boys:
      When I went, I left from the station / With a haversack and sometrepidation
    • 2011 December 10, Marc Higginson, “Bolton 1 – 2 Aston Villa”, inBBC Sport‎[1]:
      The Midlanders will hope the victory will kickstart a campaign that looked to have hit the buffers, but the sense oftrepidation enveloping theReebok Stadium heading into the new year underlines the seriousness of the predicament facingOwen Coyle's men.
  2. An involuntary trembling, sometimes an effect ofparalysis, but usually caused by terror or fear.
    Synonyms:quaking,quivering
  3. (astronomy, obsolete) Alibration of thestarrysphere in thePtolemaic system; a motion ascribed to thefirmament, to account for certain small changes in the position of theecliptic and of thestars.

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Translations

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fearful state
involuntary trembling
libration of the starry sphere

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