Trepidant

Origin

From Latin trepidāntem.

Full definition of trepidant

Adjective

1. (rare) Trembling with fear or emotion.
• 1928, Edmund Blunden, Undertones of War, Penguin 2010, p. 131:The good old Duke – no, the General, called me all trepidant to him, smiled, asked my age and service, liked the wire, and passed into the village.
2. (medicine, archaic) Marked by trembling or tremor.----