How To Use Apprehension In A Sentence

There were still areas of doubt and her apprehension grew.
Pauline recalls vividly the first time the pair spoke on the phone on Thanksgiving Day and the combination of excitement and apprehension she felt as she knew she was about to say hello.
The uneasiness grew into a formless apprehension, which drew him out into the waxing sunlight and drove him to retrace his earlier route through the meadow, towards College Rise.
The order of gentlemanly parleying and brokery has, therefore, with many apprehensions of calamity, been reluctantly and tardily giving ground before something that is of a visibly underbred order. An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation
American defender of theirs says just the same of their industrialism and free-trade; indeed, this gentleman, taking the bull by the horns, proposes that we should for the [78] future call industrialism culture, and the industrialists the men of culture, and then of course there can be no longer any misapprehension about their true character; and besides the pleasure of being wealthy and comfortable, they will have authentic recognition as vessels of sweetness and light. Culture and Anarchy

hollered one ample young madam, under the misapprehension she was being casually friendly. LOOKING FOR ANDREW MCCARTHY
Miss Margland, who, sideling towards the window, on pretence of examining a print, had heard and seen all that had passed, was almost overpowered with rage, by the conviction she received that her apprehensions were not groundless. Camilla
The panic slowly subsided to un- easy apprehension while the minutes crawled by as if they were each an hour long. INCA GOLD
Words had yet to be spoken, and Katherine found her apprehension returning in the silence.
The apprehensions of the Health Department are valid if we go for indiscriminate digging in places where there are chances for water stagnation.
The astonishment and anguish depictured on her countenance increased the apprehensions of this unfortunate father, and he renewed his question. The Romance of the Forest
According to metaphysic, the perception of matter is not the whole given fact with which we have to deal in working out this problem -- (it is not the whole given fact; for, as we have said, our apprehension of, or participation in, the perception of matter -- this is the whole given fact); -- but the perception of matter is the _whole objective_ part of the given fact. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847
I fully understand your apprehension, but please take a moment to consider how unique a film about a supervillain could be.
The presence of the security forces personnel created apprehensions among the villagers and they took refuge in a nearby ground.
I nonchalantly leave Adrian in the living room and enter the kitchen, although my stomach is clenching with anxiety and apprehension.
From the time of the arrival of the Empress we were in a state of terrible apprehension, and every one in the chateau was a prey to the greatest anxiety in regard to the Emperor. Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon
Coleridge's distrust of the intellect as sole guide, and his belief in some kind of intuitional act being necessary to the apprehension of reality, which he felt as early as 1794, was strengthened by his study of the German transcendental philosophers, and in March 1801 he writes, Mysticism in English Literature
The panic slowly subsided to un- easy apprehension while the minutes crawled by as if they were each an hour long. INCA GOLD
Beneath the festive mood there is an underlying apprehension.
His nose changed from the natural copper hue which it had acquired from many a comfortable cup of claret or sack, into a palish brassy tint, and his teeth chattered with apprehension at the unveiled audacity of my proposal, which seemed to place the barefaced plunderer before him in full atrocity. Rob Roy
I suddenly realized, with a chill of apprehension, the danger of the task ahead.
A very lucid explanation certainly, but rendered a little difficult of apprehension by the effort necessary for realising in a mental picture the conglobation of a fulgureous exhalation by a circumfixed humour. Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science
There will be no one who is able to respond sympathetically to his innermost fears and apprehensions.
+ But they were without God in the world; having cast off his fear, and the apprehension of his presence, and their accountableness, which often follow the dereliction of the divine institutions. Sermons on Various Important Subjects
Despite frequent inconsistencies and misapprehensions, the work was a principal transmitter of ancient science and Neoplatonic thought to the western Middle Ages.
Instead, he combines an astute perspective on earlier historical and sociological research with a sophisticated apprehension of the discursive dynamics of literary texts.
Money orders which, in consequence of misapprehension of the name of the remitter or place of payment have been erroneously made out, can be returned to the postmaster, and a correct order given in exchange; a new commission, however, will be charged on the corrected order. Canadian Postal Guide
The half-time hooter came at the right time for the Rhinos, but the sight of their Great Britain centre Keith Senior limping into the dug-out instead of back on to the pitch added to a sense of apprehension.
I took in my new surroundings with considerable apprehension, all right - stark terror, which turned quickly to surprise.
It is in the nature of our animality - our sense organs and perceptual apparatus - that a true apprehension of flux, of living with the chaotic, is impossible.
Section 18 requires an intention to do grievous bodily harm or an intent to resist or prevent the lawful apprehension or detainer or any person.
The change in the law has caused apprehension among many people.
But the ministrations of the grounds crew had succeeded in imparting a friendly, hospitable air to it, one that was beginning to cover over the remembered apprehension that was still attached to it in her mind.
He plays the hypercritic on himself, and starves his genius to death from a needless apprehension of a plethora. Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution
Right now we're faced with nearly a million apprehensions by the border patrol a year.
a boy, that diabolized my imagination, -- I mean, that gave me a distinct apprehension of a formidable bodily shape which prowled round the neighborhood where I was born and bred. Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
The enjoyment of heaven is usually called the beatifical vision; that is, such an intellectual present view, apprehension, and sight of God and his glory, especially as manifested in Christ, as will make us blessed unto eternity. Christologia
a wrong representation, nor mislead us from the true apprehension of anything, by its dislikeness to it: and such, excepting those of substances, are all our complex ideas. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Although I feel a slight tinge of anxiety and apprehension in the air that surrounds you, it's greatly masked by the strength of your confidence.
Levin said that, while much of the public objection was likely caused by apprehension over the expected "Hollywood-ization" of the topic, Greengrass and the studio had made no attempt to make the film "glossed," "user friendly" or "glamourized. Melissa Lafsky: Tribeca Panel Series: Actor, Producer, Family Member on "United 93"
a glitter of apprehension in her hunted eyes
Here our friend _Anamnesis_ seemed fatigued, as if he thought he had spun a sufficiently _long yarn_ on the subject; so we prevailed on him to prosecute the walk, as evening was beginning to close in -- not, indeed, without apprehension that he would make a stand at several other interesting plants on which it might suit him to prelect! Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.
By 1931 the uneasiness had extended to many conservative bourgeois who viewed the radicalism of the new movement with apprehension.
Undoubtedly many of the apprehensions about mental handicap stem from the nature of modern society with its emphasis on achieving and competition.
The different embellishments and abstracts acclimated in adornment acquiesce you to accomplish a beauteous claimed account that others can’t advice but to yield apprehension of. Think Progress » McCain On Arizona Law He Calls ‘A Good Tool’: I Don’t Know ‘Whether All Of It Is Legal Or Not’
She has repeatedly emphasized that her novels are linguistically self-conscious explicitly in order to translate the apprehension of the problematic area of language.
A great grief has fallen upon the kingdom and there is deep apprehension for the future.
This helps in no way at all to prove that such experience is direct apprehension of God and helps in no way to support the existential claim ‘God exists’.
Before it is too late, the government and all the parties related should work together to correct the current public misapprehensions and revive the collapsing poultry industry.
Anger she had none, but apprehension and conceptions strange, such as disturb the awakened soul of woman, ere the storm of passion comes to overcharge it. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843
The smooth, clean stroke is there, along with her glistening apprehension of sun and weather.
AFTER a long debate with myself how to satisfy you and remove that rock (as you call it), which in your apprehensions is of so great danger, I am at last resolved to let you see that I value your affections for me at as high a rate as you yourself can set it, and that you cannot have more of tenderness for me and my interests than I shall ever have for yours. Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54)
It corrected some of the misapprehension of New Zealanders, stating that the Moriori were from the same East Polynesian background as the Maori.
There was apprehension over a small explosion close to an abortion clinic, but the explosion proved to be accidental.
Ye have large and airy apprehensions of temporal things, which ye call needful, and ye cannot behold eternal things. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
She deprives language of its mimetic function, confining it to the site of its utterance and apprehension rather than using it as a tool to comprehend the world.
I believe she supposed I could with a word whisk Jim away out of her very arms; it is my sober conviction she went through agonies of apprehension during my long talks with Jim; through a real and intolerable anguish that might have conceivably driven her into plotting my murder, had the fierceness of her soul been equal to the tremendous situation it had created. Lord Jim
Whilst faith lives in a due apprehension of the wisdom of God in this, and the whole superstruction of this way, on this foundation it is safe. Gospel Grounds and Evidences of the Faith of God��s Elect
The panic slowly subsided to un- easy apprehension while the minutes crawled by as if they were each an hour long. INCA GOLD
Section 18 requires an intention to do grievous bodily harm or an intent to resist or prevent the lawful apprehension or detainer or any person.
False septums may have been put in later on which could lead to the misapprehension of a syncarpous ovary at superficial examination.
And George says that, in spite of many popular misapprehensions, logging is often good for forests.
No amount of scientific progress, moreover, has separated the world from our apprehension of its innate destiny.
If this Court accepts that section 38 is applicable, then it is not a reasonable suspicion or reasonable grounds of apprehension giving rise to the arrest.
Cinderella's famous slipper was made of "vair," which, through a misapprehension in being translated Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance
They were all bush dogs or wild-dogs, and so small was their courage that their thirst and physical pain from cords drawn too tight across veins and arteries, and their dim apprehension of the fate such treatment foreboded, led them to whimper and wail and howl their despair and suffering. CHAPTER XVI
The synthesis of the imagination in apprehension would only present to us each of these perceptions as present in the subject when the other is not present, and contrariwise; but would not show that the objects are coexistent, that is to say, that, if the one exists, the other also exists in the same time, and that this is necessarily so, in order that the perceptions may be capable of following each other reciprocally. The Critique of Pure Reason
There is growing apprehension that fighting will begin again.
This results in understandable apprehension from the uninformed masses.
But, sadly, a climate of opinion is being created in which facts are discounted in favour of fantasies, arbitrary allegations and wild apprehensions.
I made a cup of coffee instead and quietly surfed through my daily blogs until that feeling of dread and apprehension began to fade.
This problem with misapprehension is very familiar, with overtones of those people (you know who you are) who think of the Internet as a bunch of "tubes," for example. Archive 2009-01-01
A parenthetical remark from Craig Keller: "One barely cognates Lubitschian mise-en-scène; apprehension happens faster than you can incant 'cathexis-anti-cathexsis!!!' GreenCine Daily: DVDs, 5/11.
All these concerns, apprehensions, fears and coercions can be rationally addressed.
The knowledge, then, is transformed either through intention or extension and grasped either by comprehension or apprehension.
I had apprehensions of going to the workshop but after day one I felt very cool and could manage things.
Yet the Island editorial, which was pointedly headlined ‘The known devil is preferable’, also contained a note of apprehension.
Is he also aware that there is apprehension about the possibility of strings being attached to western aid?
Many apprehensions about academic freedom have been expressed, but we are moving towards a solution of that problem.
So whereas one of them says, "Fundus animae meae tangit fundum essentiae Dei," it had certainly been better for him to have kept his apprehensions or fancy to himself, than to express himself in words which in their own proper sense are blasphemous, and whose best defensative is that they are unintelligible. Pneumatologia
Nevertheless, these apprehension are in of economic crisis puissant and oppressive fell to become the history.
I stared at the title in apprehension, hardly noticing Sue's triumphant entry into the room, clad in jeans. WHISTLER IN THE DARK
As John Dewey maintains in Art as Experience, such attentiveness is itself ultimately liberating, as it expands our apprehension of what "experience" might be like. Literary Study
It was a cheerless room, designed to offer no comfort, but Connors showed little apprehension. DEATH OF AN UNKNOWN MAN
It's normal to feel a little apprehension before starting a new job.
There is no doubt that ultimately that may include the issue of warrants for their physical apprehension which will be executed by officers of the South Australian executive.
You seem to be labouring under considerable misapprehensions.
We have some longer-term apprehensions that she'll face issues as she gets older, and we're trying to prepare her for that ... KansasCity.com: Front Page
For the text which refers to the man 'who has read the Veda' enjoins works on him who has merely _read_ the texts, and _reading_ there means nothing more than the apprehension of the aggregate of syllables called The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48
He laboured under the constant misapprehension that nobody liked him.
In the first 18 months of diversion's operation there were 2196 apprehensions in the Territory.
Authorities made the apprehensions for immigration law violations, not sex crimes.
It is, rather, a smothering of the soul or a gallows boast, perfervid and florid - an unwitting confession of peewee excesses, of niggling lavishnesses, and of misapprehensions of the phony for the real and the swinish for the good.
Thus far, of course, this is all the result of my own misapprehension.
Departments led Lord CREWE to express apprehension lest the country should be "doped" with new Ministries, to the detriment of the national health. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, February 19, 1919
Many of his poems are on one level paeans to the existence of colour, the apprehension of which often provides the substance and the occasion of poetry.
[1] Sometimes it is a mere being of reason on the part of both relata, namely, when the order or [relative] disposition cannot exist between things except in virtue of the apprehension of reason alone. Medieval Theories of Relations
And though this screen migration might be a good thing for some, it comes with a fair share of apprehensions, for others.
The constant practice of the churches in former ages, in all their meetings for advice and counsel, to consent unto some form of wholesome words, that might be a discriminating "tessera" [symbol] of their communion in doctrine, being used in prime antiquity, -- as is manifest in that ancient symbol commonly esteemed apostolical (of the chief heads whereof mention in the like summary is made in the very first writers among them), -- having also warrant from the word of God, and being of singular use to hold out unto all other churches of the world our apprehensions of the mind of God in the chief heads of religion, may be considered. The Sermons of John Owen
He knew the prod of impulse to join in this rush away from some unthinkably catastrophic event that impended and that stirred his intuitive apprehensions of death. CHAPTER XIX
Peter knew many weren't happy with the decision, and he watched with apprehension as one of the most elderly men in the village tottered up to the platform to speak.
But the friendly, welcoming workforce soon dispelled any apprehensions that young, spotty apprentices such as I ever had.
The application of American sanctions, in particular the embargo on oil exports to Japan on 1 August 1941, justified this apprehension.
[Footnote IV. 1: _Translate: _] Interpret.] [Footnote IV. 2: _In this brainish apprehension_,] Distempered, brainsick mood.] [Footnote IV. 3: _Where the offender's scourge is weigh'd, But never the offence. Hamlet
She was almost sick with excitement and apprehension.
Quintus Fulvius, of towardly yeares and apprehension, sent him to The Decameron
And it has ever since aroused serious apprehensions and complaints from the work units and a residential community nearby.
He should confront head-on the fundamental misapprehensions driving the public mood.
However, the State authorities argue that the apprehensions are misplaced and misguided.
What a piece of work is a man! they exclaim in rhapsody, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god, the beauty of the world! The Psychology of the Suffragette
I understand that anglers at this venue are having bother with boaters who seem to be under the misapprehension that the sand bed opposite the Nidd mouth is available for mooring.
Similar incidents carrying apprehension (as Lord Macaulay would say) to the breezy interiors of a thousand shanties on the same fatal morning, the domestic circle would know no name so expressive as _hrac_ for that fatal tube through which man, ingenious in illegitimate perversion, daily compels the innocent breath to discharge a plumbeous hail of rhetoric. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860
I had a great deal of apprehension getting on the plane to fly to Japan.
'Hesitate not, my dear girl,' cried he kindly, 'to unbosom your griefs or your apprehensions, where they will be received with all the tenderness due to such a confidence, and held sacred from every human inspection; unless you permit me yourself to entrust your best and wisest friend.' Camilla
When I told her of my current apprehensions she encouraged me to continue forward, acknowledging that it can be tough.
Wisdom is the pure non-verbal apprehension of All.
Was that Cabinet minister under a misapprehension or do you actually wield power or influence?
Did he not pass on his apprehensions over what was happening to a senior figure in the party at the time?
The same apprehensions, in every situation, regulate his notions of meanness or of dignity.
There were a few uneasy seconds of awkward silence, everyone looking at Christine with apprehension.
The reader's apprehension of the point of another anecdote, in which Dr. Neumann appears in an attitude not very respectful to his own sovereign, Louis II of Bavaria, will depend upon his knowing something of the situation and history of the university buildings in Munich. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
The bridge between the disparate realms of knowledge and faith was an intuitive mode of perception or apprehension called Ahnung.
The excitement of starting a new job is always mingled with a certain apprehension.
But if that apprehension is so severe it inhibits you, forget about it.
Immigrant advocates attribute the surge in deportations to the agency's apprehension of foreigners who did not commit any crime other than entering the U.S. legally and overstaying their visas. Deportations Hit Record Number
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The rapid inrush and outflow of air inflated and deflated the interior, giving rise to apprehension that the craft might disintegrate at any moment.
I nosed the glass with some apprehension because Abi and my parents - knowing how much I've disliked whisky in the past - were all watching me intently to see what I thought.
The old man Spector handled himself well with all these nuts, but the majority of his time was wasted as an avenue for a platform to these Limbaugh/Paliin ditto heads (not to) ask pertinent questions, but blather about misapprehensions. Specter faces angry crowd at town hall meeting
The only fictions that elude our suspicions, not to say (sooner or later) our contempt, are those to be found in the arts; embracing the inexpungeable defect of our pattern-seeking and pattern-making, artists cause the defect to become — or seem to become, in our apprehension of their handiwork — a virtue. Joseph Campbell: An Exchange
Men still appear to be labouring under the misapprehension that women want hairy, muscular men.
In no-mind the world simply is, in it's purest state of pre-linguistic apprehension.
Fifteen minutes alone were dedicated to teaching it the name Frege, which his laptop interpreted as ‘radio’ – an amusing misapprehension which Frege himself would have doubtless been well-placed to appreciate. The Vogon Poetry Of Voice Recognition Software « shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows
You are able to drop old fears and apprehension about material and emotional security.
Quickly and mercifully, the initial apprehension disappears as the book turns into an intense and absorbing read.
Plus, the laptop's on the fritz so my scope for getting to a keyboard to correct misapprehensions has been limited.
A $100,000 reward is being offered for information leading to apprehension of the killer.
The mare was restless, no doubt picking up his apprehension. TREASON KEEP
It's normal to feel a little apprehension before starting a new job.
Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves. Joseph Addison
The panic slowly subsided to un- easy apprehension while the minutes crawled by as if they were each an hour long. INCA GOLD
But the public reaction seemed one of amused appreciation rather than of apprehension.
_ Well, let's favour our apprehensions 230 with forbearing that a little; for, if my heart were not hoopt with adamant, the conceipt of this would have burst it: but heark thee. Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois
In time, the political establishment scrambled to respond, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu naming a committee to list specific actions - more money for child care, less for defense - that many in the group call a misapprehension of what was, at bottom, something more diffuse: a remaking of the national consciousness. TIME.com: Top Stories
I suddenly realized, with a chill of apprehension, the danger of the task ahead.
And more often than one might stop to think, the frictional resistance of phonemic apprehension keeps the semiotic basis of representation itself from facile stabilities. Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
The panic slowly subsided to un- easy apprehension while the minutes crawled by as if they were each an hour long. INCA GOLD
The charge therefore of some against us that we paganize the nation, by reason of some different apprehensions from others concerning the regular constitution of particular churches for the celebration of gospel worship, is wondrous vain and ungrounded. A Discourse concerning Evangelical Love, Church Peace, and Unity
Investors' apprehension about Domtar stemmed largely from its core business of producing uncoated free-sheet paper, which is used for computer printers, copy machines and junk mail. General Industrials
Equally, we could neither of us be under any misapprehension of the problems we would face. A SONG AT TWILIGHT
All her nervousness and apprehension died away and she took another sip of her drink.
And it is a particularly literal-minded kind of description: no fussy, unnecessary adjectives, no figurative flourishes to get in the way of a full-on apprehension of the house and its wooden walls, its veranda flagstones and "vertical surfaces. Translated Texts
The necessity of man's willing and acting in conformity to his apprehensions and disposition, is, in their opinion, fully consistent with all the liberty which can belong to a rational nature.
He waited with sickening apprehension for the next aircraft. A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
The panic slowly subsided to un- easy apprehension while the minutes crawled by as if they were each an hour long. INCA GOLD
(Table 36 of the Department of Homeland Security's immigration statistics yearbook for 2005 shows the upticks in apprehensions at Yuma and Tuscon and the downward trends in San Diego and El Centro.) Irony and Illegal Immigration
It is a kind of gnosis, or direct apprehension of truth, which deepens over time and eventually reaches full maturity in the complete awakening experienced by the Buddha.
McMurtrey, with poorly concealed apprehension, followed as well as he could what went on at the piquet table. A GOBOTO NIGHT
From our last paragraph above it will be seen that the "line" of demarcation alluded to in the first half of the above objection has certainly never yet been defined by Tai-hoey, but it will be seen likewise that we have no apprehension of any practical difficulty in the matter. Forty Years in South China The Life of Rev. John Van Nest Talmage, D.D.
It's funny and pathetic that people sit and meticulously compile errata like this, apparently under the misapprehension that we're too stupid to get it right rather than realizing the filmmakers decided to do it a certain way.
Despite Mum's apprehensions we made the motorway journey from Little Walden (north of Cambridge) down to the London orbital road and out to Portsmouth without a hiccup.
When answering the counselor's question, "Where are you?" the counselee must have the freedom to correct any misapprehensions by saying, "No, not there; I am over here. Leading with our ears
This gave his figure a kind of bareness and bleakness which made the accident of meeting it in memory or in apprehension a peculiar concussion; it was deficient in the social drapery commonly muffling, in an overcivilized age, the sharpness of human contacts. The Portrait of a Lady
We inhabit a secular fundamentalism which rules out spiritual apprehensions as things belonging to a primitive era.
It gave him a surprised look - not to say a hearth-broomy kind of expression - which, my apprehensions whispered, might be fatal to us. David Copperfield
In the middle of the night she woke, chilled, full of nameless apprehension.
He should have been serving a sentence now and he has avoided apprehension.
You seem to be under a misapprehension.
In time the political establishment scrambled to respond, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu naming a committee to list specific actions - more money for child care, less for defense - that many in the group call a misapprehension of what was, at bottom, something more diffuse: a remaking of the national consciousness. TIME.com: Top Stories
A person who is alarmed experiences a sudden fear or apprehension of danger - some sort of anxiety.
And he said unto me, This miry slough is such a place as cannot be mended; it is the descent whither the scum and filth that attends conviction for sin doth continually run, and therefore it is called the Slough of Despond; for still, as the sinner is awakened about his lost condition, there ariseth in his soul many fears, and doubts, and discouraging apprehensions, which all of them get together, and settle in this place. The Pilgrim`s Progress
Beneath the festive mood there is an underlying apprehension.
The goal of science is the effective human apprehension and comprehension of nature.
His grin widened, but it was adulterated with some apprehension.
Her glance matched mine with apprehension, I dreaded what would come from her lips.
The excitement of starting a new job is always mingled with a certain apprehension.
And, in this brainish apprehension, kills The unseen good old man. The plays of William Shakespeare. In fifteen volumes. With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators
The boss's misapprehension mad her want to weep with frustration.
They give us something to do, some motivation and measure of control during a period otherwise fraught with anxiety and apprehension.
His testimony takes various forms: an interview with a journalist in South America before his apprehension; memoirs and evidence at his trial.
To expose this misapprehension, would be to repeat what has been said in the introductory chapter.
I have heard people say the sunset is a lonely time, when fears come out, and apprehensions creep over them ... and all their troubles come trooping home. Three Times and Out: A Canadian Boy's Experience in Germany
Consciousness requires the simultaneous apprehension in one's mind of multiple sensory features pertaining to a single scene or object.
It would not probably be unfair to suspect such faintness of apprehension, and such unfixedness and indifference of thought, in the majority of any large number of persons, though drawn together ostensibly to attend to matters of gravest concern. An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance
He watched the election results with some apprehension.
Dad has some apprehensions about having surgery.
Page 107: (comparing different levels of subsistence in England and Scotland) This difference, however, in the mode of their subsistence is not the cause, but the effect, of the diference in their wages; though, by a strange misapprehension, I have frequently heard it represented as the cause. A Bland and Deadly Courtesy
Suhrawardi's Illuminationist epistemology revolves around his theory of ˜presential™ (huduri) knowledge that one is able to achieve through intuitive apprehension or contemplative vision Suhrawardi
They take also their name of the word "mase" and "thief" (or "master-thief" if you will), because they often stound and put such persons to their shifts in towns and villages, and are the principal causes of their apprehension and taking. Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
The boss's misapprehension mad her want to weep with frustration.
In truth, the popular misapprehension on this subject has not been occasioned by any obscurity in the colophons of the great printer, or in the survey of Stow, but merely by the erroneous constricted sense into which the word abbey has passed in this country. Notes and Queries, Number 38, July 20, 1850
He noticed that the veins were standing out on Michael's forehead and against his will felt a surge of apprehension.
The excitement of starting a new job is always mingled with a certain apprehension.
If it should be thought proper by wiser heads, that his Majesty might be applied to in a national way, for giving the kingdom leave to coin halfpence for its own use, I believe no good subject will be under the least apprehension that such a request could meet with refusal, or the least delay. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish
Some students were able to process their feelings of discomfort and apprehension during their presentations.
I'm glad they caught the offender in WI, but I don't think the apprehension of murderers should be the foundation of our hunting regulations. Tagging yourself?
The life, therefore, and spirit of all our actions is the resurrection, and a stable apprehension that our ashes shall enjoy the fruit of our pious endeavours; without this, all religion is a fallacy, and those impieties of Lucian, Euripides, and Julian, are no blasphemies, but subtile verities; and atheists have been the only philosophers. Religio Medici
Now, we say, your Honour, against us there is a frozen case based on the circumstances at apprehension.
The luscious perfumed bouquet dissipates any apprehensions, though, and prepares one for the waves of spicy yet refined flavors.
The disagreements between scientists created apprehension among the public.

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