adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a tremulous manner; tremblingly.

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1730–6.  Bailey (folio), Tremulously, with trembling, tremblingly.

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1757.  W. Wilkie, Epigoniad, V. 127. Their lofty spires … O’er the pale ashes tremulously glow.

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1812.  Shelley, Lett., in Dowden, Life (1886), I. iv. 167. Once I was tremulously alive to tones and scenes.

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1886.  Manch. Exam., 9 Jan., 5/1. The great Protestant and industrial interests stand tremulously on the watch.

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