Crossword clues for apprehensiveness
apprehensiveness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Apprehensiveness \Ap`pre*hen"sive*ness\, n. The quality or state of being apprehensive.
Wiktionary
n. the state of being apprehensive
WordNet
n. fearful expectation or anticipation; "the student looked around the examination room with apprehension" [syn: apprehension, dread]
Usage examples of "apprehensiveness".
Now this Radney, I suppose, was as little of a coward, and as little inclined to any sort of nervous apprehensiveness touching his own person as any fearless, unthinking creature on land or on sea that you can conveniently imagine, gentlemen.
O Noorna, my daughter, and I am as a reed shaken by the wind of apprehensiveness, and doubt in me is a deep root as to the issue of this undertaking, for the wrath of the King will be terrible, and the clamour of the people soundeth in my ears already.
Her desire to meet the critical English ladies with a towering reputation in one department of human enterprise was comprehensible, considering the natural apprehensiveness of the half-wild girl before such a meeting.
Nor does it unfrequently occur, that Nantucket captains will send a son of such tender age away from them for a protracted three or four years' voyage in some other ship than their own: so that their first knowledge of a whaleman's career shall be unenervated by any chance display of a father's natural but untimely partiality, or undue apprehensiveness and concern.