HOR'ROR, n. [L. from horreo, to shake or shiver, or to set up the bristles,to be rough.] 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.
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