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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. Genesis 15
Horror hath taken hold on me, because of the wicked that forsake thy law. Psalms 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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Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
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Entry for 'Horror'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/h/horror.html.
Entry for 'Horror'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/h/horror.html.
