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ˌtrɛp ɪˈdeɪ ʃəntrep·i·da·tion

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. trepidationnoun

    a feeling of alarm or dread

Wiktionary

  1. trepidationnoun

    A fearful state; a state of hesitation or concern.

    I decided, with considerable trepidation, to let him drive my car without me.

  2. Etymology: From trepidatio, from trepido

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Trepidationnoun

    Etymology: trepidatio, Lat.

    The bow tortureth the string continually, and holdeth it in a continual trepidation. Francis Bacon, Nat. Hist. №. 137.

    All objects of the senses which are very offensive, cause the spirits to retire; upon which the parts, in some degree, are destitute; and so there is induced in them a trepidation and horror. Francis Bacon, Nat. Hist. №. 793.

    Moving of th’ earth brings harms and fears,
    Men reckon what it did and meant;
    But trepidation of the spheres,
    Though greater far, is innocent. John Donne.

    They pass the planets sev’n, and pass the fix’d,
    And that crystalline sphere whose balance weighs
    The trepidation talk’d, and that first-mov’d. John Milton.

    Because the whole kingdom stood in a zealous trepidation of the absence of such a prince, I have been the more desirous to research the several passages of the journey. Henry Wotton.

    His first action of note was in the battle of Lepanto; where the success of that great day, in such trepidation of the state, made every man meritorious. Henry Wotton.

ChatGPT

  1. trepidation

    Trepidation refers to a state of fear, apprehension or anxiety about something that may happen in the future. It's a feeling of nervousness or uncertainty.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Trepidationnoun

    an involuntary trembling, sometimes an effect of paralysis, but usually caused by terror or fear; quaking; quivering

  2. Trepidationnoun

    hence, a state of terror or alarm; fear; confusion; fright; as, the men were in great trepidation

  3. Trepidationnoun

    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

Wikidata

  1. Trepidation

    According to a medieval theory of astronomy, trepidation is oscillation in the precession of the equinoxes. The theory was popular from the 9th to the 16th centuries. The origin of the theory of trepidation comes from the Small Commentary to the Handy Tables written by Theon of Alexandria in the 4th century CE. In precession, the equinoxes appear to move slowly through the ecliptic, completing a revolution in approximately 25,800 years. Theon states that certain ancient astrologers believed that the precession, rather than being a steady unending motion, instead reverses direction every 640 years. The equinoxes, in this theory, move through the ecliptic at the rate of 1 degree in 80 years over a span of 8 degrees, after which they suddenly reverse direction and travel back over the same 8 degrees. Theon describes but did not endorse this theory. A more sophisticated version of this theory was adopted in the 9th century to explain a variation which Islamic astronomers incorrectly believed was affecting the rate of precession. This version of trepidation is described in De motu octavae sphaerae, a Latin translation of a lost Arabic original. The book is attributed to the Arab astronomer by Thābit ibn Qurra, but the attribution has been contested in modern times. In this trepidation model, the oscillation is added to the equinoxes as they precess. The oscillation occurred over a period of 7000 years, added to the eighth sphere of the Ptolemaic system. "Thabit's" trepidation model was used in the Alfonsine Tables, which assigned a period of 49,000 years to precession. This version of trepidation dominated Latin astronomy in the later Middle Ages.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Trepidation

    trep-i-dā′-shun, n. a state of confused hurry or alarm: an involuntary trembling.—adj. Trep′id, quaking. [L. trepidāre, -ātum, to hurry with alarm—trepidus, restless.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of trepidation in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of trepidation in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of trepidation in a Sentence

  1. Janet Yellen:

    The economic and financial news has been grim, things are now so bad that I actually open the Greenbook with greater trepidation than my 401(k).

  2. Carl Hittinger:

    What's going to happen is that Wall Street will continue to go forward with some trepidation, trying to do some big deals, people are going to hesitate.

  3. Sadie Robertson:

    This is three in a row for [ brother ] Willie's kids and we're excited about it, sadie Robertson know, it's really pretty amazing because when the show first started, I think our only trepidation about doing a show where Sadie Robertson're kind of thrusting Sadie Robertson kids and Sadie Robertson teenagers into the limelight, I think that was all of our greatest fears, and for me as my grandkids because my kids are older.

  4. Ryan Williams:

    There’s a finite pool of talent for presidential campaigns available, and in large, multi-candidate fields there’s intense competition for them. You see this before every presidential cycle when there’s an open shot at the nomination, additionally, even though President Trump starts as the front-runner for the Republican nomination, there’s a lot of trepidation among staffers about working for him. He’s been volatile in the past, and staff haven’t always ended their service with him on great terms. So there’s a desire to look at some of the other candidates in the field and jump on board.

  5. Roger Stone:

    Although there are private communications contained in the warrants, they prove no crime. I have no trepidation about their release, there is, to this day, no evidence that I had or knew about the source or content of the Wikileaks disclosures prior to their public release.

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  • Doug Mc Clintock
    Doug Mc Clintock
    add dread & nervousness
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