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Apprehensiveness  n.  The quality or state of being apprehensive.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Apprehensiveness" Quotes from Famous Books



... the servant, discontinuing his work on the coat sleeve, and addressing the rapt Spaniard with a sort of timid apprehensiveness, as one charged with a duty, the discharge of which, it was foreseen, would prove irksome to the very person who had imposed it, and for whose benefit it was intended, "master told me never mind where he was, or ...
— The Piazza Tales • Herman Melville

... whether Wildeve was conscious of any other intention than that of winning for his own personal benefit. Moreover, he was now no longer gambling for his wife's money, but for Yeobright's; though of this fact Christian, in his apprehensiveness, did not ...
— The Return of the Native • Thomas Hardy

... observed that Berenice was much paler, and not in such good spirits as formerly: she was evidently under great constraint and anxiety, and the expression of her countenance towards me was changed; there was an apprehensiveness, which she in vain endeavoured to calm—her attention to whatever I was saying or doing, even when she appeared to be occupied with other things, was constant. I was convinced that I was continually in her ...
— Tales & Novels, Vol. IX - [Contents: Harrington; Thoughts on Bores; Ormond] • Maria Edgeworth

... which is the impulse. The grossness of the vulgarities is rendered with a completeness that goes far to convince us of a certain sensitiveness of apprehension in the designer; and then again we get convinced that real apprehension—real apprehensiveness—would not have insisted upon such things, could not have lived with them through almost a whole career. There is one drawing in the Punch of years ago, in which Charles Keene achieved the nastiest thing possible to even the invention ...
— The Rhythm of Life • Alice Meynell

... clearly enough the motive for suppressing the passages. But even after making allowance for the natural timidity and apprehensiveness of the publishers' reader, I cannot quite understand why those particular passages were cut out. Here is one of them: "I had genius, a distinguished name, high social position, brilliancy, intellectual daring; I made art a philosophy ...
— Books and Persons - Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 • Arnold Bennett

... She drew away from him slightly. In her apprehensiveness she hurried on for her own protection. "I hoped you were coming back just now, Stewart, and put out your hand to me as your friend, a good pal who had given sensible advice, and say to me, 'Lana, you have used your wits to good advantage while you have been out ...
— All-Wool Morrison • Holman Day

... the captious Mrs. Spofford began to resent this studied indifference. She detested him more than ever for not running true to the form she had predicted; her apprehensiveness gave way to irritation. She resented his dignified, pleasant "good mornings"; she complained acidly to Ruth about what she was now pleased ...
— West Wind Drift • George Barr McCutcheon

... timidity, diffidence, want of confidence; apprehensiveness, fearfulness &c adj.; solicitude, anxiety, care, apprehension, misgiving; feeze [U.S.]; mistrust &c (doubt) 485; suspicion, qualm; hesitation &c (irresolution) 605. nervousness, restlessness &c adj.; inquietude, disquietude, worry, concern; batophobia^; heartquake^; flutter, trepidation, fear ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget



Words linked to "Apprehensiveness" :   pall, apprehensive, chill, sombreness, fright, foreboding, fearfulness, dread, gloominess, suspense, somberness



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