TREPIDATION

trepidation

Noun

  1. A fearful state; a state of hesitation or concern.
    I decided, with considerable trepidation, to let him drive my car without me.
  2. An involuntary trembling, sometimes an effect of paralysis, but usually caused by terror or fear; quaking; quivering.
  3. 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.


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