PALPITANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does palpitant mean? 

• PALPITANT (adjective)
  The adjective PALPITANT has 1 sense:

1. having a slight and rapid trembling motion

  Familiarity information: PALPITANT used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PALPITANT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having a slight and rapid trembling motion

Synonyms:

palpitant; palpitating

Context example:

my palpitating heart

Similar:

unsteady (subject to change or variation)

Derivation:

palpitate (beat rapidly)

palpitate (shake with fast, tremulous movements)

palpitate (cause to throb or beat rapidly)

 Context examples 

It soared upward with a swift rush, till it reached its topmost note, where it persisted, palpitant and tense, and then slowly died away.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Forest and stream and air seemed palpitant with their presence.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Sensation usurped reason, and he was quivering and palpitant with emotions he had never known, drifting deliciously on a sea of sensibility where feeling itself was exalted and spiritualized and carried beyond the summits of life.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Here the very air was palpitant with life.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Came a beautiful fall day, warm and languid, palpitant with the hush of the changing season, a California Indian summer day, with hazy sun and wandering wisps of breeze that did not stir the slumber of the air.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

And through the swaying, palpitant vision, as through a fairy mirage, he stared at the real woman, sitting there and talking of literature and art. He listened as well, but he stared, unconscious of the fixity of his gaze or of the fact that all that was essentially masculine in his nature was shining in his eyes.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)