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Definition of Trepidly
1. Adverb. In a timorous and trepid manner.
Definition of Trepidly
1. Adverb. In a fearful or timid manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trepidly
Literary usage of Trepidly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of New York: From the Beginning of the World to the End of the by Washington Irving (1820)
"To show that this last sentence was not a mere empty menace, he concluded his
letter by in* trepidly protesting against the whole council, ..."
2. History of the Battle of Agincourt by Nicholas Harris Nicolas (1827)
"... took away our terrors, and gave! us a fearless heart: never had our elders!
seen the English more daringly and in-! trepidly, or voluntarily charge ..."
3. Institutes of Ecclesiastical History, Ancient and Modern: In Four Books by Johann Lorenz Mosheim, James Murdock (1844)
"He first went among the Hessians, where he suppressed the remains of idolatry,
and in* trepidly cat down the consecrated oak of Jи- fiter, which broke into ..."
4. A Critical Greek and English Concordance of the New Testamentby Charles Frederic Hudson, Ezra Abbot, Thomas Sheldon Green by Charles Frederic Hudson, Ezra Abbot, Thomas Sheldon Green (1885)
"... fearlessly, boldly in trepidly. Phi. 1.14 ; securely, pean full)-, tranquilly,
Lu. 1.74. l fco. ¡6 10; impudently,shamefully, Jude 12. ..."
5. Meditations and Contemplations on the Sufferings of Our Lord and Saviour by Johann Jakob Rambach (1811)
"He then not only in- trepidly appeared with open face ; but also exposed his
naked back, and with joy received the stripes, which were inflicted on him by ..."
6. Sketches of the Irish Bar: With Essays, Literary and Political by William Henry Curran (1855)
"Jcan-Jaques in- ' trepidly went forth to meet the embodied deputies from the fine
arts, the King, and the Jesuit—and he beat them all. ..."
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