[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That quavers, in senses of the vb.
1430–40. Lydg., Bochas, IV. xx. (1554), 119. In al such quauering perseuerance Thinke on Lisymachus.
1561. Hollybush, Hom. Apoth., 22. S. Ihons beries … be good for the quauering harte.
1607. Topsell, Four-f. Beasts (1658), 272. Such passing sweet musick as that his fine quavering hand could sometime make.
1725. Pope, Odyss., XX. 222. With quavering cries the vaulted roofs resound.
1873. Holland, A. Bonnic., xxi. 340. A voice quite unnatural in its quavering sharpness.
Hence Quaveringly adv., in a quavering manner; with a quaver in the voice.
1594. Nashe, Unfort. Trav., Wks. 1883–4, V. 185. Iarring on them quaueringly with his hammer.
1883. J. Hawthorne, Fort. Fool, I. xiii. 120. ‘I don’t want to have you go, Jack!’ said she, quaveringly.
