palpitant - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
English
Adjective
palpitant (comparative more palpitant, superlative most palpitant)
- palpitating, throbbing
- ✤ He gave the impression of a creature whose back has been broken, whose whole essence and energy have been wrenched asunder, yet in which life somehow clings, palpitant.1
Etymology
From French.
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Footnotes
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1923, George Allan England, The Thing from—“Outside”: ↩