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Meaning of APPREHENSION in English

The act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure; as, the hand is an organ of apprehension.

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    Meaning of APPREHENSION in English

    • The act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure; as, the hand is an organ of apprehension.
    • The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest; as, the felon, after his apprehension, escaped.
    • The act of grasping with the intellect; the contemplation of things, without affirming, denying, or passing any judgment; intellection; perception.
    • Opinion; conception; sentiment; idea.
    • The faculty by which ideas are conceived; understanding; as, a man of dull apprehension.
    • Anticipation, mostly of things unfavorable; distrust or fear at the prospect of future evil.

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