trepidancy

English

Etymology

    From trepidant + -cy.

    Pronunciation

    • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈtɹɛpɪdənsi/
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    Noun

    trepidancy (uncountable)

    1. (rare) Trembling caused by fear or nervous agitation.
      • 1840, Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher:
        In the manner of my friend I was at once struck with an incoherence—an inconsistency; and I soon found this to arise from a series of feeble and futile struggles to overcome an habitual trepidancy—an excessive nervous agitation.
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