trepidation

Hope and trepidation persists that the twins presence indicates the coming of an Avengers/X-Men crossover film.

Brutus himself received a wound in their eagerness and trepidation.

An eyewitness says of these martyrs to liberty: "They behaved with firmness, evincing no hesitation or trepidation whatever."

It was when my saintly mother was passing into the spiritland, and, without fear or trepidation, lay calmly awaiting her call.

Sick, she palpitates; she compresses her trepidation; she coughs, perchance she sings a bar or two of an aria.

With a great deal of trepidation I approached the crossing of the Rapidan.