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2 definitions found 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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