Hypertext Webster Gateway: "horror"

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) 1.7 (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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