Why, do you think, that this word as a verb can mean to arrest, or to see clearly, yet as a noun, it means filled with dread. Is it that you are seized by paralysis, because you are so afraid, or that you are clearly aware of how forboding the environment is and thus become filled with trepidation? Or is it something else. The sources are very unforthcoming; they stay with the definition having started from 'to seize'. Anyone have any ideas?
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Randus commented on the word apprehension
Why, do you think, that this word as a verb can mean to arrest, or to see clearly, yet as a noun, it means filled with dread. Is it that you are seized by paralysis, because you are so afraid, or that you are clearly aware of how forboding the environment is and thus become filled with trepidation? Or is it something else. The sources are very unforthcoming; they stay with the definition having started from 'to seize'. Anyone have any ideas?
October 20, 2011