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Apprehension   /ˌæprɪhˈɛnʃən/   Listen
Apprehension

noun
1.
Fearful expectation or anticipation.  Synonyms: apprehensiveness, dread.
2.
The cognitive condition of someone who understands.  Synonyms: discernment, savvy, understanding.
3.
Painful expectation.  Synonym: misgiving.
4.
The act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal).  Synonyms: arrest, catch, collar, pinch, taking into custody.



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"Apprehension" Quotes from Famous Books



... Anthony Harman, Esq. I much prefer the former; in the first place, because it is minute and detailed, and written, it seems to me, with more caution and knowledge; and in the next, because the letters from Dr. Hedstone, which are embodied in it, furnish matter of the highest value to a right apprehension of the nature of the case. It was one of the best declared cases of an opening of the interior sense, which I have met with. It was affected too, by the phenomenon, which occurs so frequently as to indicate a law of ...
— Green Tea; Mr. Justice Harbottle • Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

... Kenyon died and left them ten thousand pounds, all their own, it placed them forever beyond the apprehension of want, and also enabled them to do for others; for they pensioned old Walter Savage Landor, and established him in comfortable quarters around ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 5 (of 14) • Elbert Hubbard

... to chatter, her hands shook, there was a tightness in her chest, her heart began to beat with hard, dull pulsations, and at times seemed to stop beating, and she gasped for breath. A terrible apprehension seized her, while the cold seemed to penetrate to her marrow. She never had felt such a sensation, she had never seemed to lose her hold on life like this before, never been so near ...
— Une Vie, A Piece of String and Other Stories • Guy de Maupassant

... flung headlong against the high stone fence that bordered most of the road. In view of this I determined to muffle my head in the folds of my thick shawl at the moment of overturn, and as I could do no better for myself, I awaited my fate with equanimity. As far as apprehension goes, I had rather travel from Maine to Georgia by rail, than from ...
— Passages From the English Notebooks, Complete • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... and mind with a married partner is made sensible also in the body as one flesh. As the angels made these declarations, I heard it asserted by the spirits who were present, that such subjects belong to angelic wisdom, being above ordinary apprehension; but these spirits were rational-natural, and ...
— The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love • Emanuel Swedenborg


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