aquiver

From a- +‎ quiver.

• IPA^(key): /əˈkwɪvə(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -ɪvə(ɹ)

aquiver (not comparable)

1. In a state of excitement, trepidation or agitation; quivering.
   • 1879, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert; Arthur Sullivan, composer, H.M.S. Pinafore;  […], San Francisco: Bacon & Company,  […], →OCLC:

     Sighing softly to the river
     Comes the lonely breeze,
     Setting Nature all a-quiver,
     Rustling through the trees,

   • 1907, Barbara Baynton, Sally Krimmer; Alan Lawson, editors, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 279:

     There is no colour line in love, and though a-quiver with ungovernable fright, for Ursula's sake black Woona went graphically through the final death contortions of the poisoned mangy pup.

   • 1926, R.P. Weston and Bert Lee, What I Want is a Proper Cup of Coffee:

     He said "Stand and deliver / For I am all aquiver."

   • 1961, Rachel Carson, The Sea Around Us, New York: Oxford University Press, revised edition, Part 1, p. 66,

     Almost the whole continental rim of the Pacific basin is aquiver with earthquakes and fiery with volcanoes, some frequently active, some extinct, some merely sleeping a centuries-long sleep between periods of explosive violence.