rare. [f. as prec. + -NESS.] The state of trembling; tremulousness.
1727. Bailey, vol. II., Tremulousness, tremblingness.
1799. Godwin, St. Leon (1801), II. xii. 130. The time that had intervened since her decease … had somewhat … deadened the tremblingness of sensation with which I once thought of her.
1876. Pulaski Citizen, 2 March, 3/3. We tell it [a dark rumor] now in dread and tremblingness, lest we be called to account for it.
1890. trans. Job iv. 13.
| A dread came on me, and a tremblingness, | |
| And it disturbed my bones most dreadfully. | |
| Ibid. ix. 6. | |
| He who doth shake the earth out of its place, | |
| And pillars thereof show their tremblingness. |
1906. H. S. Wilcox, A Strange Flaw, vi. 96–7. The old man seized the spade and dug me up as soon as the feeble tremblingness of age would permit.
