All 7 Uses of
apprehension
in
Anna Karenina
- He saw the smile, and a strange misapprehension came over him.†
Part 2 *
- In spite of all his social experience Vronsky was, in consequence of the new position in which he was placed, laboring under a strange misapprehension.†
Part 5
- "Then the children's illnesses, that everlasting apprehension; then bringing them up; evil propensities" (she thought of little Masha's crime among the raspberries), "education, Latin—it's all so incomprehensible and difficult.†
Part 6
- There was nothing cheerful and joyous in the feeling; on the contrary, it was a new torture of apprehension.†
Part 7
- And this sense was so painful at first, the apprehension lest this helpless creature should suffer was so intense, that it prevented him from noticing the strange thrill of senseless joy and even pride that he had felt when the baby sneezed.†
Part 7
- He was struck at first by the idea that the apprehension of divine truths had not been vouchsafed to man, but to a corporation of men bound together by love—to the church.†
Part 8
- And most of all, at there being far more apprehension and pity than pleasure.†
Part 8 *
Definitions:
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(apprehension as in: apprehension of the situation) to understand
or:
in psychology and philosophy: immediate awareness prior to analysis and judgment
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(apprehension as in: apprehension about finals) worry about what is to come