trepidant

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adjective

Trembling with fear or emotion.

OriginLatin trepidantem →
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Meanings

adjectivetrepidant (comparative more trepidant, superlative most trepidant)

comparative more trepidant · superlative most trepidant

  1. rareTrembling with fear or emotion.

    The good old Duke – no, the General, called me all trepidant to him, smiled, asked my age and service, liked the wire, and passed into the village.

    1928, Edmund Blunden, Undertones of War, Penguin, published 2010, page 131
  2. archaicmedicineMarked by trembling or tremor.

Origin

  1. Latintrepidantem
  2. Englishtrepidant

From Latin trepidantem.

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Chicago

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