thrilling

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   causing quivering or shivering as by cold or fear or electric shock

   a thrilling wind blew off the frozen lake

2. 2
   adj

   Causing a feeling of sudden excitement.

   He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.

3. 3
   noun

   A thrill.

   […] my heart told me that she did all be stirred with small thrillings of defiance unto me, and with thrillings of love […]

4. 4
   adj

   causing a surge of emotion or excitement

5. 5
   verb

   present participle and gerund of thrill