the horrors

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the horrors - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Horror \Hor"ror\, n. [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?sh to bristle.]
     1. A bristling up; a rising into roughness; tumultuous
        movement. [Archaic]
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              Such fresh horror as you see driven through the
              wrinkled waves.                       --Chapman.
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     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.
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     3. A painful emotion of fear, dread, and abhorrence; a
        shuddering with terror and detestation; the feeling
        inspired by something frightful and shocking.
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              How could this, in the sight of heaven, without
              horrors of conscience be uttered?     --Milton.
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     4. That which excites horror or dread, or is horrible; gloom;
        dreariness.
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              Breathes a browner horror on the woods. --Pope.
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     The horrors, delirium tremens. [Colloq.]
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