TER'ROR, noun [Latin terror from terreo, to frighten.] 1. Extreme fear; violent dread; fright; fear that agitates the body and mind. The sword without, and terror within. Deuteronomy 32:25. The terrors of God do set themselves in array against me. Job 6:4. 2. That which may excite dread; the cause of extreme fear. Rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Romans 13:3. Those enormous terrors of the Nile. 3. In Scripture, the sudden judgments of God are called terrors.Psalms 73:19. 4. The threatenings of wicked men, or evil apprehended from them. 1 Peter 3:14. 5. Awful majesty, calculated to impress fear. 2 Corinthians 5:11. 6. Death is emphatically styled the king of terrors.
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