Affright vs Trepidation - What's the difference?
affright | trepidation | Related terms |
to terrify, to frighten, to inspire fright
* Shakespeare
* Milton
A fearful state; a state of hesitation or concern.
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An involuntary trembling, sometimes an effect of paralysis, but usually caused by terror or fear; quaking; quivering.
(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.
Affright is a related term of trepidation.
As nouns the difference between affright and trepidation
is that affright is great fear, terror, fright while trepidation is trembling.As a verb affright
is to terrify, to frighten, to inspire fright.affright
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(en verb)- Dreams affright our souls.
- A drear and dying sound / Affrights the flamens at their service quaint.
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* See alsotrepidation
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(-)- I decided, with considerable trepidation , to let him drive my car without me.
- She opened the drawing-room door in trepidation . Would she find Esther drowned with her head in the goldfish bowl, or hanged from the chandelier by her stay-lace?
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