Meanings
nountrepidancy (uncountable)
- rareuncountableTrembling caused by fear or nervous agitation.
In the manner of my friend I was at once struck with an incoherence—an inconsistency; and I soon found this to arise from a series of feeble and futile struggles to overcome an habitual trepidancy—an excessive nervous agitation.
1840, Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
Origin
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