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Webster 1913 Edition
Thrilling
Thrill′ing
,Adj.
Causing a thrill; causing tremulous excitement; deeply moving;
– as, a
. thrilling
romanceThrill′ing-ly
, adv.
Thrill′ing-ness
, Noun.
Webster 1828 Edition
Thrilling
THRILL'ING
,ppr.
1.
Piercing; penetrating; having the quality of penetrating; passing with a tingling, shivering sensation.2.
Feeling a tingling, shivering sensation running through the system.Definition 2024
thrilling
thrilling
English
Verb
thrilling
- present participle of thrill
Adjective
thrilling (comparative more thrilling, superlative most thrilling)
- Causing the feeling of a sudden excitement.
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 5, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
- 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.
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Synonyms
- See also Wikisaurus:exciting
Noun
thrilling (plural thrillings)
- A thrill.
- William Hope Hodgson, The Night Land
- […] my heart told me that she did all be stirred with small thrillings of defiance unto me, and with thrillings of love […]
- William Hope Hodgson, The Night Land