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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state of being tremulous.

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  • noun The property of being tremulous.

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Examples

  • Brother That and Aunt Some One Else, until, the first tremulousness of meeting over, eyes moist with tenderness of love, they sat gazing at each other across their teacups.

    ON THE MAKALOA MAT 2010

  • The whole of me was caught up in the accents of that tremulousness.

    The Kempton-Wace Letters 2010

  • Twenty days later he showed up at the urological clinic complaining of "pains in the groin, burning pain in the genital area, weakness, tremulousness, and inability to sleep."

    Miss Yourlovin: GIs, Gender, and Domesticity during World War II 2008

  • “They are the future” I remind myself and wonder if any good can come of a future born in such tremulousness.

    365 tomorrows » 2007 » June : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2007

  • Charles Krauthammer used his Washington Post column in March to suggest that the way to advance the “glorious, delicate, revolutionary moment in the Middle East” is to go after Syria. “This is no time to listen to the voices of tremulousness, indecision, compromise, and fear, ” he wrote.

    Think Progress » White House Endorses Column Calling For Israel to Attack Syria 2006

  • Caffeinism usually combines physical addiction with a wide range of unpleasant physical and mental conditions including nervousness, irritability, anxiety, tremulousness, muscle twitching (hyperreflexia), insomnia, and heart palpitations.

    Archive 2006-12-01 2006

  • Caffeinism usually combines physical addiction with a wide range of unpleasant physical and mental conditions including nervousness, irritability, anxiety, tremulousness, muscle twitching (hyperreflexia), insomnia, and heart palpitations.

    Evil Caffeine! 2006

  • Charles Krauthammer used his Washington Post column in March to suggest that the way to advance the “glorious, delicate, revolutionary moment in the Middle East” is to go after Syria. “This is no time to listen to the voices of tremulousness, indecision, compromise, and fear, ” he wrote.

    Think Progress » ThinkFast PM: July 12, 2006 2006

  • Cotton-wood trees were green and bright, aspens shivered in gold tremulousness, wild grape-vines trailed their lemon-colored foliage along the ground, and the Virginia creeper hung its crimson sprays here and there, lightening up green and gold into glory.

    A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains 2007

  • It was all I could do to keep from laughing at her tremulousness.

    INNER CIRCLE KATE BRAIN 2007

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