thrillant

English

Etymology

From thrill +‎ -ant.

Adjective

thrillant (comparative more thrillant, superlative most thrillant)

1. (obsolete) Piercing.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 19, page 160:

     The knight his thrillant ſpeare again aſſayd / In his bras-plated body to emboſſe, […]

     Referring to a spear being thrust into a person, and so “embossed” (enclosed) by his body.