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Definition of Trembling

1. Adjective. Vibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear or cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze. "Trembling hands"

2. Noun. A shaky motion. "The shaking of his fingers as he lit his pipe"

Definition of Trembling

1. a. Shaking; tottering; quivering.

Definition of Trembling

1. Verb. (present participle of tremble) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Trembling

1. tremble [v] - See also: tremble

Medical Definition of Trembling

1. Shaking; tottering; quivering. Trem"blingly, Trembling poplar, the aspen. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Trembling

trematodea trematodes trematoid trembathite tremble tremble dance tremble dances trembled trembler tremblers

trembles tremblest trembleth tremblier trembliest trembling trembling palsy tremblingly tremblor tremblors

trembly tremelimumab tremella tremellas tremelloid tremendous tremendously tremendousness tremex tremie

Literary usage of Trembling

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The pilgrim's progress from this world to that which is to come by John Bunyan (1879)
"They \ might also see my fears in my countenance, in my tears, and also in my trembling under the appre- hension of the judgment that did hang over our ..."

2. Macbeth by William Shakespeare, William George Clark, William Aldis Wright (1878)
"If trembling I inhabit then, protest me . . . There are few passages of our author which have given rise to so much discussion as this. ..."

3. The Poetical Works of John Dryden by John Dryden (1909)
"... By winds upheld, hangs hov'ring in the sky, Is gaz'd upon by ev'ry trembling swain, 560 This for his vineyard fears, and that his For blooming plants, ..."

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