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noun

Excitement n.

The act of exciting, or the state of being roused into action, or of having increased action; impulsion; agitation; as, an excitement of the people.

That which excites or rouses; that which moves, stirs, or induces action; a motive. "The cares and excitements of a season of transition and struggle."

(Physiol.) A state of aroused or increased vital activity in an organism, or any of its organs or tissues.

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Etymology of 'Excitement'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Excitement" Quotes from Famous Books

... holding her breath a little in her intense excitement. It seemed impossible that Inez could do all she promised without making a mistake, and Dolores would not have been a woman had she not been visited just then by visions of ridicule. Without light she was utterly helpless to do anything for herself, and she had ...

— In The Palace Of The King - A Love Story Of Old Madrid • F. Marion Crawford

... widowhood the cherished records that her happy pen had written in the vanished days of her wifehood, opening her heart to us in mute petition that we might give our hearts to her. She served her people by the simplicity of her tastes and habits in these days of senseless luxury, and fierce, sensuous excitement of living. She served her people by the purity of her life, and so far as she could by putting a barrier around her Court, across which nothing that was foul could pass. 'He that worketh iniquity shall not tarry in my house,' said an ancient king on taking his throne. And ...

— Expositions Of Holy Scripture - Volume I: St. Luke, Chaps. I to XII • Alexander Maclaren

... rattling of chains, the creak of timbers as if the craft were aground and the sea getting out of its bed to whelm you altogether, the doubt as to what will come,—all combine to make a scene of strange excitement for a landlubber. ...

— McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader • William Holmes McGuffey

... Hanover Street, all thought of duty was forgotten as he viewed, with no slight degree of pride, that scene of excitement, in the cause ...

— Under the Liberty Tree - A Story of The 'Boston Massacre' • James Otis

... she designed the whole fabric of her life with the unique object of keeping herself amused. Nothing bored her more than to have the general attention centered on some one else, as all that evening it had been focussed on the absent ones. Not only did she miss the excitement of her contest with Christine over the possession of Riatt, but she was positively wearied by the Usshers' anxiety, by her brother's agony of jealousy and fear, and by Wickham's continual effort to strike an original thought from the dramatic ...

— Ladies Must Live • Alice Duer Miller

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