athrob
adj/əˈθɹɒb/
Etymology From a- + throb.
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Throbbing.
- Thou wondrous harper, that hast thrilled my heart, […] And made me all athrob with ecstasy,—1858, Martin Farquhar Tupper, Alfred, Westminster, act V, page 50:
- The great test was on, whether such a nation could live, and Boston was athrob with love of country and eagerness to sacrifice.1911, James Oppenheim, chapter 4, in The Nine-Tenths, New York: Harper, pages 57–58:
2 more examples
- […] all the earth was blurred in darkness and the sky a-throb with starlight, for it was yet an hour until the rising of the moon.1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, chapter 24, in The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC:
- I have my sore wound, all my length of arm a-throb with lancing pain;1974, Robert Fitzgerald, transl., The Iliad, Garden City, New York: Anchor Press/Doubleday, Book 16, p. 393: