Obs. [see -ATION.] The action of fluttering; the state of being fluttered.
1754. Richardson, Grandison, III. vii. 50. Such a Love as she as good as owns she had in her days of flutteration, as she whimsically calls them.
1771. Hull, Sir W. Harrington, IV. 168–9. She wishes the interview was over, which I wonder not at in the least, since even I, who am so much less concerned, am in a violent flutteration about it.
1805. in Spirit Public Jrnls. (1806), IX. 265. The names of Colonel, Major, and Captain, scarce occasion the smallest flutteration, and the red coat is viewed with as little danger as the brown frock.
