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

The whole company were in a state of horripilation.

From The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story by Roussel, John

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

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?