Word of the Day: TREMEBUND


ETYMOLOGY
from Latin tremebundus (trembling), from tremere (to tremble)


EXAMPLE
“…Thay tak delyt in martiall deidis,
And are of nature tremebund,
Thay wald men nurist all thair neidis,
Syne confortles lattis thame cnfound:
So find I thair affectioun
Contrair thair awin complexioun…”

From: Chronicle of Scottish Poetry,
From the Thirteen Century to the
By James Sibbald, 1802
Of Wemen-kind, By Alexander Scott, c1560

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