tremour

tremour (plural tremours)

1. Obsolete form of tremor.
   • 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter VII, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume II, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 101–102:

     […] a letter was delivered to Marianne, which she eagerly caught from the servant, and, turning of a death-like paleness, instantly ran out of the room. Elinor, who saw as plainly by this, as if she had seen the direction, that it must come from Willoughby, felt immediately such a sickness at heart as made her hardly able to hold up her head, and sat in such a general tremour as made her fear it impossible to escape Mrs. Jennings’s notice.

tremour (third-person singular simple present tremours, present participle tremouring, simple past and past participle tremoured)

1. Obsolete spelling of tremor

• tremor

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman tremour, Old French tremor, from Latin tremor.

• IPA^(key): /trɛːˈmuːr/, /ˈtrɛːmur/

tremour (uncountable)

1. terror (great fear or fright)

• English: tremor

• “tremǒur, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “tremor, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.