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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

noun A state of alarm or dread; apprehension. synonym: fear.
noun Archaic An involuntary trembling or quivering.

from The Century Dictionary.

noun Tremulous agitation; perturbation; alarm.
noun A trembling of the limbs, as in paralytic affections.
noun A vibratory motion; a vibration.
noun In ancient astronomy, a libration of the eighth sphere, or a motion which the Ptolemaic system ascribes to the firmament to account for certain phenomena, especially precession, really due to motions of the axis of the earth.
noun Synonyms Tremor, Emotion, etc. (see agitation), flutter, tremulousness, discomposure.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

noun An involuntary trembling, sometimes an effect of paralysis, but usually caused by terror or fear; quaking; quivering.
noun Hence, a state of terror or alarm; fear; confusion; fright.
noun (Anc. Astron.) 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.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

noun A fearful state; a state of hesitation or concern.
noun An involuntary trembling, sometimes an effect of paralysis, but usually caused by terror or fear; quaking; quivering.
noun astronomy, obsolete 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.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

noun a feeling of alarm or dread

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin trepidātiō, trepidātiōn-, from trepidātus, past participle of trepidāre, to be in a state of confusion, from trepidus, anxious.]

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From Latin trepidātiō, from trepidō ("be agitated")

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Examples

Because this pervasive trepidation is unprecedented in their lifetime, most Americans have reflexively invoked the Depression in their efforts to comprehend their experience.

Life In (and After) Our Great Recession 2009
A very nice young man, of whom no maid's mother need ever be in trepidation; a very strong young man, whose substance had not been wasted in riotous living; a very learned young man, with a Freiberg mining engineer's diploma and a B.A. sheepskin from Yale; and, lastly,

CHAPTER 7 2010
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.

Chapter 39 2010
So, Saturday, I ran up to the local place, armed with a certain trepidation for an inflated price.

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Because this pervasive trepidation is unprecedented in their lifetime, most Americans have reflexively invoked the Depression in their efforts to comprehend their experience.

Life In (and After) Our Great Recession 2009
Presently F himself rushes in horror & trepidation from the room and while still expressing his agony & terror

Novel into Drama and onto the Stage 2008
Adding to my trepidation is this primary poll from Survey USA, which confirms Roulstone's campaign doesn't yet have the profile it needs.

Sound Politics: Roulstone Update 2006
I don't know why I say that. [oh look i'm crying again] I watched it with a certain trepidation, and halfway through the clip, when images of the results of the white phosphorous began showing, I could not stop crying.

Response: [I can't happen to think of a title] fantasyecho 2006
I always feel a certain trepidation when I read the work of a friend, especially one who has given me as much encouragement and help as sartorias has.

August 15th, 2006 superversive 2006
Xmas hurtles at us like a skateboarding troll trundling downhill - it's big, impressive, but to be viewed with a certain trepidation by those in its path.

Toys R Us - Military Sword & Sorcery is coming ("#### Harry Potter! Daddy, where's my axe?") zornhau 2005

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five commented on the word trepidation

I hate this word. It is simply overused, particularly by sci-fi, fantasy, and gothic fiction authors. The worst abuse I have seen is in Bloodline by Kate Cary (which is, despite good reviews on Amazon, an absolute literary abomination!)

April 17, 2008
qroqqa commented on the word trepidation

But trepidation of the spheares,
Though greater farre, is innocent.
—Donne, 'A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning'
The touching of the Ptolemaic spheres one upon the other produced the music of the spheres.

July 15, 2008
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June 29, 2010
jwjarvis commented on the word trepidation

the once vibrant health care alternative of lodge practice, which less than two decades before had inspired trepidation throughout the medical establishment, had virtually disappeared

September 14, 2010
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