All 3 Uses of
apprehensive
in
A Sketch of the Past
- 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.†
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- 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…†
- Down I came one winter's evening about tgoo in my green dress; apprehensive, yet, for a new dress excites even the unskilled, elated.†
Definition:
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(apprehensive) worried over possible misfortune