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trepidant
trepidant
See also: trépidant
English
Adjective
trepidant (comparative more trepidant, superlative most trepidant)
- (rare) Trembling with fear or emotion.
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1928, Edmund Blunden, Undertones of War, Penguin 2010, p. 131:
- 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.
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1928, Edmund Blunden, Undertones of War, Penguin 2010, p. 131:
- (medicine, archaic) Marked by trembling or tremor.