soul-shaking

English

Adjective

soul-shaking (comparative more soul-shaking, superlative most soul-shaking)

Frightful; terrifying; extremely unsettling.
- 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
  Nor was this all, for with the flashes came a soul-shaking sound like that of thunder and of crashing trees.

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