Noun

(-)

A fearful state; a state of hesitation or concern.

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

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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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, year=2011 , date=December 10 , author=Marc Higginson , title=Bolton 1 - 2 Aston Villa , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=The Midlanders will hope the victory will kickstart a campaign that looked to have hit the buffers, but the sense of trepidation enveloping the Reebok Stadium heading into the new year underlines the seriousness of the predicament facing Owen Coyle's men.}}

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.

Noun

(en noun)

The act of repelling or the condition of being repelled.

An extreme dislike of something, or hostility to something.

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, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion […] such talk had been distressingly out of place.}}

(physics) The repulsive force acting between bodies of the same electric charge or magnetic polarity.