shuddering
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]shuddering
- present participle and gerund of shudder
- 1600 or 1601 (date written), I. M. [i.e., John Marston], “The Prologue”, in Antonios Reuenge. The Second Part. […], London: […] [Richard Bradock] for Thomas Fisher, and are to be soulde [by Matthew Lownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, signature A2, recto:
- The ravviſh danke of clumzie vvinter ramps / The fluent ſummers vaine: and drizling ſleete / Chilleth the vvan bleak cheek of the numd earth, / VVhilſt ſnarling guſts nibble the iuyceles leaues, / From the nak't ſhuddring branch; […]
- 2009 February 19, Gareth Lewis, Southern Daily Echo[1]:
- They have turned a great old English institution into a shameful clip-joint. It's a shuddering, howling tragedy.
Noun
[edit]shuddering (plural shudderings)
- An extended or continuous shudder.