English Explanatory Dictionary

horrour

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Obsolete spelling of horror.

Word forms

horrour horrours

Etymology

From Middle English horrour, from Old French horrour, from Latin horror (“a bristling, a shaking, trembling as with cold or fear, terror”), from horrere (“to bristle, shake, be terrified”). Displaced native Old English ōga.

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