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Webster 1913 Edition
Horror
Hor′ror
,Noun.
[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[GREEK]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.]
Webster 1828 Edition
Horror
HOR'ROR
,Noun.
1.
A shaking, shivering or shuddering, as in the cold fit which precedes a fever. This ague is usually accompanied with a contraction of the skin into small wrinkles, giving it a kind of roughness.2.
An excessive degree of fear,or a painful emotion which makes a person tremble; terror; a shuddering with fear; but appropriately, terror or a sensation approaching it, accompanied with hatred or detestation. Horror is often a passion compounded of fear and hatred or disgust. The recital of a bloody deed fills us with horror. A horror of great darkness fell on Abram. Gen.15.
Horror hath taken hold on me, because of the wicked that forsake thy law. Ps.119.
3.
That which may excite horror or dread; gloom; dreariness. And breathes a browner horror on the woods.
4.
Dreadful thoughts.5.
Distressing scenes; as the horrors of war or famine.