TREPIDATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does trepidation mean? 

• TREPIDATION (noun)
  The noun TREPIDATION has 1 sense:

1. a feeling of alarm or dread

  Familiarity information: TREPIDATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TREPIDATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A feeling of alarm or dread

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Hypernyms ("trepidation" is a kind of...):

apprehension; apprehensiveness; dread (fearful expectation or anticipation)

 Context examples 

You cannot think I mean to hurry you, said he, in an undervoice, perceiving the amazing trepidation with which she made up the note, you cannot think I have any such object.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

It was with some trepidation that I perceived the hour approach when I was to repair with my charge to the drawing-room.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

With that the cub passed out the door in trepidation to the last for fear that Brissenden would hit him in the back with the bottle he still clutched.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It was with nervous trepidation that we made the first few rods of the journey.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He carries some creature about with him in that box; about which the landlady seemed to be in considerable trepidation, for she had never seen an animal like it.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She had heard nothing of Lady Catherine that spoke her awful from any extraordinary talents or miraculous virtue, and the mere stateliness of money or rank she thought she could witness without trepidation.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

His honest face, as he looked at me with a serio-comic shake of his head, impresses me more in the remembrance than it did in the reality, for I was by this time in a state of such excessive trepidation and wandering of mind, as to be quite unable to fix my attention on anything.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Between a grand piano and a centre-table piled high with books was space for a half a dozen to walk abreast, yet he essayed it with trepidation.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I stood still, in trepidation.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

There was no occasion, there was no time for Fanny to say how very differently she felt; but the idea of having such another to observe her was a great increase of the trepidation with which she performed the very awful ceremony of walking into the drawing-room.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)