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

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

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

Some of the sufferers have an external horripilation, transient shiverings are felt in the front and hind quarters and at the junction of the limbs with the trunk.

From On the cattle plague: or, Contagious typhus in horned cattle. Its history, origin, description, and treatment by Bourguignon, Honor?

The whole company were in a state of horripilation.

From The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story by Roussel, John