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▪ I. quavering, vbl. n.|ˈkweɪvərɪŋ|
[f. quaver v. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb., in various senses.
1552Huloet, Quauerynge, vibratio. 1577tr. Bullinger's Decades (1592) 932 A Hymne..may bee humblie vttered without quauering of the voice. 1634Wither Embl. 82 T'will cause a thousand quaverings in your breast. 1706A. Bedford Temple Mus. vii. 158 Tebhir..may denote a Shake or Quavering of the Voice. 1826Scott Woodst. i, The..Mayor then interrupted the quavering of..the clerk. 1892E. Reeves Homeward Bound 222 A buzzing, humming sound..with quaverings on its sharp and flat.
▪ II. quavering, ppl. a.|ˈkweɪvərɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That quavers, in senses of the vb.
1430–40Lydg. Bochas iv. xx. (1554) 119 In al such quauering perseuerance Thinke on Lisymachus. 1561Hollybush Hom. Apoth. 22 S. Ihons beries..be good for the quauering harte. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 272 Such passing sweet musick as that his fine quavering hand could sometime make. 1725Pope Odyss. xx. 222 With quavering cries the vaulted roofs resound. 1873Holland A. Bonnic. xxi. 340 A voice quite unnatural in its quavering sharpness.
Hence ˈquaveringly adv., in a quavering manner; with a quaver in the voice.
1594Nashe Unfort. Trav. Wks. 1883–4 V. 185 Iarring on them quaueringly with his hammer. 1882J. Hawthorne Fort. Fool i. xiii, ‘I don't want to have you go, Jack!’ said she, quaveringly. |