athrill

English

Etymology

From a- +‎ thrill.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈθɹɪl/
• Rhymes: -ɪl

Adjective

athrill

1. Thrilled, feeling a thrill; trembling or vibrating (with an emotion, movement, etc.).
   • 1884, Margaret Oliphant, chapter 8, in Sir Tom‎^[1], volume 3, London: Macmillan, page 121:

     […] an unfrequented path which lay still in the April sunshine, the lilac bushes standing up on each side all athrill and rustling with the spring,

   • 1908, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 33, in Anne of Green Gables‎^[2], Boston: L.C. Page, page 371:

     As Anne would have said at one time, it was “an epoch of her life,” and she was deliciously athrill with excitement of it.

   • 1926, James Oliver Curwood, chapter 10, in The Black Hunter‎^[3], New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation:

     the passion of sublime emotion which seemed to set every living force in his body athrill

Anagrams

• Hartill, hill rat