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▪ I. ˈshuddering, vbl. n.
[f. shudder v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb shudder.
c1440Pallad on Husb. i. xc, A shuddering [v.r. shoughturyng] a flusshing, & affray He [sc. the peacock] maketh thenne. 1565Golding Ovid's Met. iv. A ij b, A shuddryng throughe her stracke. 1737Gentl. Mag. VII. 630/1 With universal shudd'ring, and dismay. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. I. 288 They have intervals of shuddering, as if they were in a strong fit of the ague. 1812F. Burney Diary (1876) IV. 205 The..event..I never even yet recollect without an inward shuddering. 1888Athenæum 20 Oct. 516/1 Strong shudderings and revulsions.
▪ II. ˈshuddering, ppl. a.
[f. shudder v. + -ing2.]
1. That shudders; trembling with cold, fear, or abhorrence; quivering, vibrating.
1596Shakes. Merch. V. iii. ii. 110 And shuddring feare, and greene-eyed iealousie. 1602Marston Ant. & Mel. iii. Wks. 1856 I. 30 The shuddering morne that flakes, With silver tinctur, the east vierge of heaven. 1742W. Collins Ode Fear 53 With shudd'ring meek submitted thought. 1764Goldsm. Trav. 65 The shudd'ring tenant of the frigid zone. 1855Tennyson Maud ii. iv. vii, In the shuddering dawn. 1872O. W. Holmes Poet Breakf.-t. v, The massive turret shudders with the shuddering rocks on which it rests. 1891Farrar Darkn. & Dawn xxviii, A light laugh woke a shuddering echo along the fretted roof.
2. Characterized or accompanied by shuddering.
1586Warner Alb. Eng. i. vi. (1589) 20 Saue howlings out and shuddering feare came nought to eare or sight. 1794Mrs. Radcliffe Myst. Udolpho xxvi, Pointing with a shuddering emotion to Annette. 1797― Italian ii, A shuddering presentiment. 1863Geo. Eliot Romola i. iii, I have a shuddering sense of what there is inside. 1882Sat. Rev. 6 May 567/1 To leave on the hearer an impression of shuddering disgust. 1893W. H. Hudson Idle Days Patag. i. 2 Strange grating and grinding noises, and shuddering motions of the ship.
b. Causing one to shudder. rare.
1848Lady Lyttelton in Corr. (1912) 384 The notion of his being actually put to death..is shuddering! |