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

A wonderful desire and love impel men from distant regions to visit the holy spot, and the first sight of the Ka’abah causes awe and fear, horripilation and tears.

From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

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

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

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