HOR'ROR, noun [Latin 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. Genesis 15:12. Horror hath taken hold on me, because of the wicked that forsake thy law. Psalms 119:53. 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.
Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary ↗ · public-domain · returned verbatim, no AI