TREMULOUS \TREM-yuh-luhs, adjective:
1. Shaking; shivering; quivering; as, a tremulous motion of the hand or the lips; the tremulous leaf of the poplar.
2. Affected with fear or timidity; trembling.
In Victorian literature [read: circa Jane Austen and Mary Shelly] the female heroines often suffered from TREMULOUS shivers. Me? I would have just shook - shook ‘em up and beat ‘em down, Buffy the Vampire Slayer style.
