Definition of "palpitating" [palpitating]

• Present participle of palpitate. (verb)

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• "Whether it would have been distasteful to the feelings of the founder of that cult is another question, and, debased or not, it is at least alive and palpitating, which is more than can be said of certain other varieties."
• "Was it not more "palpitating" to set the prodigal in modern Paris?"
• "Beneath the bonnet (which was large) appeared a little, round, agitated old face, with bobbing white curls and white teeth set a little apart in the mouth, a defect that brought a kind of palpitating frankness into the expression."