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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Free from tremor or vibration.

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Examples

  • He stood up and came across the room with his tremorless hand extended, showing off: "Want to thank you for this, Ty."

    Spin 2005

  • Jim Wichek stood welcoming them inside the room, red-haired, squat, thick, tough and with hands that could as­semble a transistorized printed-circuit lashup with tremorless delicacy under nuclear attack.

    Behold the Stars Bulmer, Kenneth, 1921- 1965

  • The word was sharp as a pistol shot, and Leyden was brought to a halt by the menacing muzzle of a small automatic pistol in Mrs. Goring's firm, tremorless hand.

    Gold Out of Celebes Aylward Edward Dingle

  • Her eyes were calm and sweet with candour; her colour was a clear and artless glow; the hand she offered the Briton was tremorless.

    The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf Louis Joseph Vance 1906

  • It was as though the spirit of the deep had taken form in the substance of the noblest of all the fowls of its dominions, and, poised on tremorless wings, was surveying with the cold curiosity of an intelligence empty of human emotion the destruction of one of those fabrics whose unequal contests and repeated triumphs had provoked its haughty surprise.

    The Frozen Pirate 1877

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