[f. L. trepid-us TREPID + -ITY.] Agitation, alarm, fearfulness.
1721. Bailey, Trepidity, trembling, fearfulness.
1807. W. Taylor, in Ann. Rev., V. 193. Pecuniary cowardice is far viler than animal trepidity.
1898. Westm. Gaz., 7 Sept., 7/1. It was with some trepidity that … one looked out of the window.
