Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Thrilling character or quality.
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- noun The quality of being
thrilling .
Etymologies
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Examples
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It's the independence and thrillingness and vulnerability of the protagonist you fancy or identify with.
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However, as a novel, this certainly lacks thrillingness and flow for this sort of story.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Stinger - Nancy Kress Blue Tyson 2009
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That a little wild thing should come to one unasked was of a thrillingness touched with awe.
My Robin 1912
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He told it with the greatest thrillingness any one could have, but Daisy and Alice seemed almost unmoved.
The Wouldbegoods Edith 1901
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FRAU QUIXANO [_Who has fallen asleep over her book, wakes as if with a sense of the horror and gazes dazedly around, adding to the thrillingness of the moment_] _Dovidel!
The Melting-Pot Israel Zangwill 1895
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He told it with the greatest thrillingness anyone could have, but Daisy and Alice seemed almost unmoved.
The Wouldbegoods 1891
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That a little wild thing should come to one unasked was of a thrillingness touched with awe.
My Robin Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886
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You feel she might explode at any moment with the sheer thrillingness of it all.
The Guardian World News Martin Kelner 2010
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