All 3 Uses of
apprehensive
in
1776, by McCullough
- He was gravely, realistically apprehensive about the magnitude of the enemy force en route.†
p. 117.6 *apprehensive = nervous or worried
- Years later, Henry Clinton would remember Howe being extremely apprehensive.†
p. 170.8
- Like General Putnam, Washington, too, had been awakened in the middle of the night with word of Grant's early assault, and at daybreak, still apprehensive of a second, larger attack on New York, Washington had watched with increasing anxiety as five enemy warships—Roebuck, Asia, Renown, Preston, and Repulse—started for the East River with a favorable wind and tide.†
p. 175.2
Definition:
worried over possible misfortune