a. [ Cf. F. répréhensif. ] Containing reprehension; conveying reproof. South. [ 1913 Webster ]
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a. [ Cf. F. appréhensif. See Apprehend. ]
It may be pardonable to imagine that a friend, a kind and apprehensive . . . friend, is listening to our talk. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]
A man that has spent his younger years in vanity and folly, and is, by the grace of God, apprehensive of it. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]
Judgment . . . is implied in every apprehensive act. Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]
Not at all apprehensive of evils as a distance. Tillotson. [ 1913 Webster ]
Reformers . . . apprehensive for their lives. Gladstone. [ 1913 Webster ]
Thoughts, my tormentors, armed with deadly stings,
Mangle my apprehensive, tenderest parts. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In an apprehensive manner; with apprehension of danger. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality or state of being apprehensive. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Cf. F. appréhensif. See Apprehend. ]
It may be pardonable to imagine that a friend, a kind and apprehensive . . . friend, is listening to our talk. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]
A man that has spent his younger years in vanity and folly, and is, by the grace of God, apprehensive of it. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]
Judgment . . . is implied in every apprehensive act. Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]
Not at all apprehensive of evils as a distance. Tillotson. [ 1913 Webster ]
Reformers . . . apprehensive for their lives. Gladstone. [ 1913 Webster ]
Thoughts, my tormentors, armed with deadly stings,
Mangle my apprehensive, tenderest parts. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In an apprehensive manner; with apprehension of danger. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality or state of being apprehensive. [ 1913 Webster ]