tremour
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English
Noun
tremour (plural tremours)
- Obsolete form of tremor.
- 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter VII, in Sense and Sensibility , volume II, London: C Roworth, , and published by T Egerton, , →OCLC, pages 101–102:
- […] a letter was delivered to Marianne, which she eagerly caught from the servant, and, turning of a death-like paleness, instantly ran out of the room. Elinor, who saw as plainly by this, as if she had seen the direction, that it must come from Willoughby, felt immediately such a sickness at heart as made her hardly able to hold up her head, and sat in such a general tremour as made her fear it impossible to escape Mrs. Jennings’s notice.
Verb
tremour (third-person singular simple present tremours, present participle tremouring, simple past and past participle tremoured)
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Anglo-Norman tremour, Old French tremor, from Latin tremor.
Pronunciation
Noun
tremour (uncountable)
Descendants
- English: tremor
References
- “tremǒur, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- “tremor, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
