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thrilling en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˈθɹɪlɪŋ/
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Meanings
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Causing a feeling of sudden excitement.
He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.
1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
Forms
Deriveds
thrillingness · unthrilling · thrillingly
thrilling en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈθɹɪlɪŋ/
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Meanings
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A thrill.
[…] my heart told me that she did all be stirred with small thrillings of defiance unto me, and with thrillings of love […]
1912, William Hope Hodgson, The Night Land:
Forms
thrilling en · VERB
Pronunciation
- /ˈθɹɪlɪŋ/
- (Southern-England) audio
Meanings
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(form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of thrill