All 4 Uses
apprehensive
in
Jane Eyre
(Edited)
- Here I walked about for a long time, feeling very strange, and mortally apprehensive of some one coming in and kidnapping me; for I believed in kidnappers, their exploits having frequently figured in Bessie's fireside chronicles.
p. 51.1 *apprehensive = frightened
- In that sense I do feel apprehensive — I have no wish to talk nonsense.
p. 162.5apprehensive = nervous or worried
- Are you apprehensive of the new sphere you are about to enter?
p. 322.8
- The disquietude of his air, the somewhat apprehensive impatience of his manner, surprised me: but I proceeded.
p. 325.6
Definitions:
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(1)
(apprehensive) worried over possible misfortune
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)