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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
trepidation/trepɪˈdeɪʃn/

▶noun

1 a feeling of fear or agitation about something that may happen.

2 archaic trembling motion.

– origin C15: from L. trepidatio(n-), from trepidare ‘be agitated, tremble’.

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