Quivering vs Quavering - What's the difference?
quivering | quavering |
shaking, shivering
* 1853 , , Tom Taylor (editor), The Life of Benjamin Robert Haydon ,
A motion by which something quivers or trembles.
* 1837 , '' in ''Twice-Told Tales ,
* 1921 , ,
* 1954 , ,
As verbs the difference between quivering and quavering
is that quivering is present participle of lang=en while quavering is present participle of quaver.As nouns the difference between quivering and quavering
is that quivering is a motion by which something quivers or trembles while quavering is the act of something that quavers.As an adjective quivering
is shaking, shivering.quivering
English
Adjective
(head)- The quivering mass of jello rocked back and forth incessantly but remained on the plate.
- You envied me in all my great successes — Jerusalem, Lazarus, Mock Election, pupils, drawings, lectures ; and at all times tried to prove they were not successes, with a pale face and quivering' lip — more pale and more ' quivering than usual.
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- quiverings of the eyelid
- The quiverings of incipient harmony were hushed, and the divine sat in speechless and almost terrified astonishment, while she undid the door, and stood up in the sacred desk from which his maledictions had just been thundered.
- And now the lion lunged suddenly to earth and with a few spasmodic quiverings lay still.
- There remained only the quiverings —the windows, the steel springs of the bed, the dishes, a chair touching the wall.
- There came at last a silence so complete she could hear the ticking of the clock under the bed, and the snoring of Sophronie's children behind the wall of the girls' bedroom.
