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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Apprehension is a 1982 German drama film written and directed by Lothar Warneke and starring Christine Schorn . The film was entered into the main competition at the 39th edition of the Venice Film Festival .

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"perception, comprehension," late 14c., from Old French apprehension or directly from Latin apprehensionem (nominative apprehensio ), noun of action from past participle stem of apprehendere (see apprehend ). Sense of "seizure on behalf of authority" is ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES chill of fear/apprehension/disquiet etc ▪ Fay felt a chill of fear as she watched Max go off with her daughter. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB feel ▪ I felt a peculiar apprehension , and sensed the woodland spirits ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Apprehension \Ap`pre*hen"sion\, n. [L. apprehensio: cf. F. appr['e]hension. See Apprehend .] The act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure; as, the hand is an organ of apprehension. --Sir T. Browne. The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest; ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context rare English) The physical act of seize or take hold of; seizure. 2 (context legal English) The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest. 3 The act of grasping with the intellect; the contemplation of things, without affirming, denying, ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. fearful expectation or anticipation; "the student looked around the examination room with apprehension" [syn: apprehensiveness , dread ] the cognitive condition of someone who understands; "he has virtually no understanding of social cause and effect" ...

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There are, furthermore, the accompanying symptoms of a coated tongue, bitter taste in the mouth, unpleasant eructations, scalding of the throat from regurgitation, offensive breath, sick headache, giddiness, disturbed sleep, sallow countenance, heart-burn, morbid craving after food, constant anxiety and apprehension, fancied impotency, and fickleness.

In passing the breakwater Bonaparte could not withhold his admiration of that work, which he considered highly honourable to the public spirit of the nation, and, alluding to his own improvements at Cherbourg, expressed his apprehensions that they would now be suffered to fall into decay.

The Pannonian army was at this time commanded by Septimius Severus, a native of Africa, who, in the gradual ascent of private honors, had concealed his daring ambition, which was never diverted from its steady course by the allurements of pleasure, the apprehension of danger, or the feelings of humanity.

Again he went over the events of the afternoon, remembering his own anguish of apprehension because he had known he could not climb the wall without fainting with fear.

The apostate soon became the presumptive heir of the monarchy, and his death could alone have appeased the just apprehensions of the Christians.

Here as there the apprehension of the object is not only distinct from, but also separate from, any judgment we may make about whether the object we are apprehending really exists.

De Flotte in one district, Victor Hugo in another, Schoelcher in a third, are actively urging on the combat, and expose their lives a score of times, but none feel themselves supported by any organized body: and moreover the attempt of the Royalists in the Tenth Arrondissement has roused apprehension.

Guinevere, despite her apprehension, was astounded by the gilded magnificence of the building that rose sheer and buttressed to the north side of the court.

Lovers in like manner live on their capital from failure of income: they, too, for the sake of stifling apprehension and piping to the present hour, are lavish of their stock, so as rapidly to attenuate it: they have their fits of intoxication in view of coming famine: they force memory into play, love retrospectively, enter the old house of the past and ravage the larder, and would gladly, even resolutely, continue in illusion if it were possible for the broadest honey-store of reminiscences to hold out for a length of time against a mortal appetite: which in good sooth stands on the alternative of a consumption of the hive or of the creature it is for nourishing.

This would amply account for the removal of Richard Lee to Virginia, and for the ambition he seems to have been inspired with, to build and improve, without attributing to him any apprehension of probable punishment for his political course.

Now that Bernard had heard himself say it, audibly, distinctly, loudly, the spell of his apprehension seemed broken, and he went on bravely.

When, as the Roman army was besieging Corioli, and was wholly intent on the townspeople, whom they kept shut up, without any apprehension of war threatening from without, the Volscian legion, setting out from Antium, suddenly attacked them, and, at the same time the enemy sallied forth from the town, Marcius happened to be on guard.

Instead of embracing such an active resolution, which might have changed the whole face of the war, the prudent Licinius expected the approach of his rival in a camp near Hadrianople, which he had fortified with an anxious care, that betrayed his apprehension of the event.

Niall, his dark eyes betraying a hint of apprehension from beneath his thick silver hair, struck his staff on the bridge several times in an effort to silence the increasingly unruly throng, but the clamor continued unabated.

Earth fleet kept up acceleration, and a slow apprehension grew in the heart of Brek Veronar.