trepidancy
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trepidancy (uncountable)
- (rare) Trembling caused by fear or nervous agitation.
- 1840, Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher:
- In the manner of my friend I was at once struck with an incoherence—an inconsistency; and I soon found this to arise from a series of feeble and futile struggles to overcome an habitual trepidancy—an excessive nervous agitation.