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tremulent

tremulent is the dated form of tremulant.

Meaning of tremulant

Adjective

tremulant (comparative more tremulant, superlative most tremulant)

  1. Trembling, tremulous.
    • The night air wrapped them warmly, and the balm of the little breezes that stirred the foliage around them was the smell of damask roses from the garden. . . . She stood by the bench, one hand resting on it; she stood all in the tremulant shadow.1899, Booth Tarkington, chapter 6, in The Gentleman From Indiana

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Forms of tremulent

comparativemore tremulent
superlativemost tremulent

Questions about tremulent

What is tremulent the dated form of?
Tremulent is the dated form of tremulant.

Words near tremulent in the dictionary

  1. tremulates
  2. tremulating
  3. tremulation
  4. tremulations
  5. tremulatory
  6. tremulent
  7. tremuloidin
  8. tremulous
  9. tremulously
  10. tremulousness
  11. tren

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tremulent (page history and authors); tremulant (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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