Apprehension
[æprɪ'henʃ(ə)n] or [,æprɪ'hɛnʃən]
Definition
(noun.) the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal); 'the policeman on the beat got credit for the collar'.
(noun.) painful expectation.
(noun.) fearful expectation or anticipation; 'the student looked around the examination room with apprehension'.
Checker: Micawber--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure; as, the hand is an organ of apprehension.
(n.) The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest; as, the felon, after his apprehension, escaped.
(n.) The act of grasping with the intellect; the contemplation of things, without affirming, denying, or passing any judgment; intellection; perception.
(n.) Opinion; conception; sentiment; idea.
(n.) The faculty by which ideas are conceived; understanding; as, a man of dull apprehension.
(n.) Anticipation, mostly of things unfavorable; distrust or fear at the prospect of future evil.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Seizure, arrest.[2]. Understanding, intellect, intelligence, intellection, mind, reason.[3]. Conception, IMAGINATION, the mind's eye.[4]. Knowledge, discernment, perception, sense.[5]. Opinion, belief, fancy, supposition, judgment, sentiment, idea, notion.[6]. Fear, dread, distrust, suspicion, anxiety, solicitude, care, concern, misgiving, alarm, worry, disquiet, uneasiness, vexation.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See APPREHEND]
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Examples
- I never saw such faltering, such confusion, such amazement and apprehension. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The apprehension was for the possibility of evil he imagined. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- It meant the apprehension of material which should ballast and check the exercise of reasoning. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Apprehension means dread of undesirable consequences, as well as intellectual grasp. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Astonishment, apprehension, and even horror, oppressed her. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- For the future there is no apprehension. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Her voluptuous, acute apprehension of him made the blood faint in her veins, her mind went dim and unconscious. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- My father is not sufficiently alarmed, I fear; and, therefore, if there is any serious apprehension, it must be broken to him gently. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- He _spoke_ of apprehension and anxiety, but his countenance expressed real security. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- But as her glance assured her that they were still beyond ear-shot a sense of pleasure replaced her apprehension. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Not even the prospect of reward, far less any feelings of compassion alone, could surmount this apprehension. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- There was cause for hesitation, for apprehension on this point. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- She glanced with apprehension at the door of the room that had been Gerald's. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Had they no apprehension of anything before the elopement took place? Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- But from my former knowledge of my present captain, I confess I look forward with apprehension to a long course of tyranny on board the Russell. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Finding my apprehensions unfounded, however, and calmed by the deep silence that reigned as evening declined at nightfall, I took confidence. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- And Mr. Smallweed says it not without evident apprehensions of his dear friend, who still stands over him looming larger than ever. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Have no apprehensions for me, Trotwood,' she added, after a moment; 'the step you dread my taking, I shall never take. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- This phaenomenon is analogous to the system of pride and humility above-explained, which may seem so extraordinary to vulgar apprehensions. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Mrs. Vesey's answer to my inquiries only confirmed the apprehensions which I had previously felt. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- These apprehensions, perhaps, were not founded entirely on reason, and certainly not at all on truth. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- The stationer's heart begins to thump heavily, for his old apprehensions have never abated. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I could have gloried in bringing home to him his worst apprehensions astoundingly realized. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Is it the indirect result of my apprehensions for Laura's future? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Nothing appeared, to justify my apprehensions. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- It is thus our uncertainty concerning any minute circumstance relating to a person encreases our apprehensions of his death or misfortune. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- I complied, in a very uncomfortable state, and with a warm shooting all over me, as if my apprehensions were breaking out into buds. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The future seemed full of a vague promise, and all her apprehensions were swept out of sight on the buoyant current of her mood. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- I can seem to make light of his apprehensions, and look down _du haut de ma grandeur_ on his youthful ardour. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The woman was under apprehensions of the dry old man, for she whisked her apron away as he approached, and disclosed a pale affrighted face. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
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