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Horripilation
Horripilation pronounced \ho-rip-uh-LAY-shuhn\ Late Latin horripilatio, horripilation-, from Latin horripilatus, past participle of horripilare, to bristle with hairs : horrere, to tremble + pilare, to grow hair (from pilus, hair). The bristling of the body hair, as from fear or cold; goose bumps.
‘The poor man frightened, terrified, alarmed, seized with a feeling of horripilation all over the body, and agitated in mind, reflects thus.’
Translated By H. Kern, Saddharma-Pundarika or The Lotus of the True Law, Sacred Books of the East, Vol XXI, 1884.
Lance Morrow & John Dickerson, Men are they really that bad? Time, Feb 14, 1994.
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