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Synonyms for horrors

Grammar : Noun
Spell : hawr-er, hor-
Phonetic Transcription : ˈhɔr ər, ˈhɒr-

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Définition of horrors

Origin :
  • early 14c., from Old French horror (12c., Modern French horreur) and directly from Latin horror "dread, veneration, religious awe," a figurative use, literally "a shaking, trembling, shudder, chill," from horrere "to bristle with fear, shudder," from PIE root *ghers- "to bristle" (cf. Sanskrit harsate "bristles," Avestan zarshayamna- "ruffling one's feathers," Latin eris (genitive) "hedgehog," Welsh garw "rough"). As a genre in film, 1934. Chamber of horrors originally (1849) was a gallery of notorious criminals in Madame Tussaud's wax exhibition.
  • noun fear, revulsion
Example sentences :
  • I suppose the cup of horrors was not full enough for such as me.
  • Extract from : « The Secret Agent » by Joseph Conrad
  • I had undoubtedly brought on myself a fit of the "horrors," by my recent excesses.
  • Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
  • Will you be a willing party to bringing these horrors again upon us?
  • Extract from : « In the Valley » by Harold Frederic
  • It's the wail of a lost spirit, loosed temporarily from the horrors of purgatory.
  • Extract from : « Good Indian » by B. M. Bower
  • That settled, she had nothing to do but to recount her horrors over again.
  • Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 9 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
  • "But, my dear Baron, everybody goes to the Chamber of Horrors," said he.
  • Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola
  • Forgive me this earnestness, but the horrors of a jail have made me half distracted.
  • Extract from : « The Letters of Robert Burns » by Robert Burns
  • I have had no one to confide in; no one to advise me; no one to save me from the horrors of my existence.
  • Extract from : « The Room in the Dragon Volant » by J. Sheridan LeFanu
  • It's enough to give one the horrors—the very sight of it is enough.
  • Extract from : « Wilfrid Cumbermede » by George MacDonald
  • The shepherdess had listened to all the horrors of the scene with a gloomy kind of satisfaction.
  • Extract from : « Imogen » by William Godwin

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