horripilation

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Shivaree, chthonian, erumpent, tintinnabulation, exonumia, requiescat, deipnosophist, omphaloskepsis, horripilation, deliquesce, apopemptic.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 26, 2021

I can’t have been the only person who spent the evening in a pretty much constant state of horripilation.

From New York Times • Nov. 25, 2018

Sambhrama here means, probably, joy, or that gratification which shows itself in horripilation.

From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 by Ganguli, Kisari Mohan

How shall any miserable man render in clay the quivering of flesh to an Idea,—the inexplicable horripilation of a Thought?

From Some Chinese Ghosts by Hearn, Lafcadio

But, suddenly, through all the horripilation there seemed to shine a light.

From Pemrose Lorry, Camp Fire Girl by Hornibrook, Isabel Katherine