Noun
An involuntary trembling, sometimes an effect of paralysis, but usually caused by terror or fear; quaking; quivering.
Hence, a state of terror or alarm; fear; confusion; fright; as, the men were in great trepidation.
A libration of the starry sphere in the Ptolemaic system; a motion ascribed to the firmament, to account for certain small changes in the position of the ecliptic and of the stars.
Source: Webster's dictionaryBeing at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation. Daniel Day-Lewis
But the first lie in the series is the one you make with the greatest trepidation and the heaviest heart. Michael Chabon
Incredible nervous state, trepidation beyond words: to be this much in love is to be sick (and I love to be sick). Georges Bataille
We all approached doing a sequel with great trepidation and skepticism. Jason Biggs
At the back of their personal troubles, hopes and fears, this less immediate trepidation grew, this intangible suggestion of change, that most unforgivable of all heresies. Mervyn Peake
I approach the presentation of Kierkegaard with some trepidation. Next to Nietzsche, or rather, prior to Nietzsche, I consider him to be the most important thinker of our post-Kantian age. Karl Jaspers