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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Horror \Hor"ror\, n. [Formerly written horrour.] [L. horror, fr
horrere to bristle, to shiver, to tremble with cold or dread,
to be dreadful or terrible; cf Skr. h?sh to bristle.]
1. A bristling up a rising into roughness; tumultuous
movement. [Archaic]
Such fresh horror as you see driven through the
wrinkled waves. --Chapman.
2. A shaking, shivering, or shuddering, as in the cold fit
which precedes a fever; in old medical writings, a chill
of less severity than a rigor, and more marked than an
algor.
3. A painful emotion of fear, dread, and abhorrence; a
shuddering with terror and detestation; the feeling
inspired by something frightful and shocking.
How could this in the sight of heaven, without
horrors of conscience be uttered? --Milton.
4. That which excites horror or dread, or is horrible; gloom;
dreariness.
Breathes a browner horror on the woods. --Pope.
{The horrors}, delirium tremens [Colloq.]
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
horror
n 1: intense and profound fear
2: something that inspires horror; something horrible; "the
painting that others found so beautiful was a horror to
him"
3: intense aversion [syn: {repugnance}, {repulsion}, {revulsion}]
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