Both Uses of
apprehension
in
To Kill a Mockingbird
- Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere,
p. 262.3 *apprehension = worry
- She put away from her whatever it was that gave her a pinprick of apprehension, and suggested that I give the family a preview in the livingroom.
p. 290.9
Definitions:
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(1)
(apprehension as in: apprehension about finals) worry about what is to come
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(2)
(apprehension as in: apprehension of the criminal) the capture of a criminal
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(3)
(apprehension as in: apprehension of the situation) to understand
or:
in psychology and philosophy: immediate awareness prior to analysis and judgment