All 3 Uses
apprehensive
in
A Sketch of the Past
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- But Stella's death two years later fell on a different substance; a mind stuff and being stuff that was extraordinarily unprotected, unformed, unshielded, apprehensive, receptive, anticipatory.†
*apprehensive = nervous or worried
- All this had toned my mind and made it apprehensive; made it I suppose unnaturally responsive to Stella's happiness, and the promise it held for her and for us of escape from that gloom; when once more unbelievably—incrediblyas if one had been violently cheated of some promise; more than that, brutally told not to he such a fool as to hope for things; I remember saying to myself after she died: "But this is impossible; things aren't, can't be, like this"— the blow, the second blow of death, struck on me; tremulous, filmy eyed as I was, with my wings still creased, sitting there on the edge of my broken chrysalis.†
- Down I came one winter's evening about tgoo in my green dress; apprehensive, yet, for a new dress excites even the unskilled, elated.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(apprehensive) worried over possible misfortune
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)