palpitant

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   literary: trembling, throbbing, or seeming to pulse with life or feeling

   The night air seemed palpitant with wings and distant movement.

Borrowed in the nineteenth century from French palpitant, the present participle of palpiter, 'to palpitate.' The line ultimately goes back to Latin palpitare, 'to throb or tremble.'

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