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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Horrournoun

    Etymology: horror, Latin; horreur, French.

    Over them sad horrour, with grim hue,
    Did always soar, beating his iron wings;
    And after him owls and night ravens flew,
    The hateful messengers of heavy things. Fairy Queen, b. ii.

    I have supt full with horrours;
    Direness, familiar to my slaught’rous thoughts,
    Cannot once start me. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

    Doubtless all souls have a surviving thought,
    Therefore of death we think with quiet mind;
    But if we think of being turn’d to nought,
    A trembling horrour in our souls we find. Davies.

    Me damp horrour chill’d
    At such bold words, vouch’d with a deed so bold. John Milton.

    Deep horrour seizes ev’ry human breast;
    Their pride is humbled, and their fear confest. Dryden.

    Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene,
    Shades ev’ry flow’r, and darkens ev’ry green;
    Deepens the murmur of the falling floods,
    And breathes a browner horrour on the woods. Alexander Pope.

    All objects of the senses, which are very offensive, do cause the spirits to retire; and, upon their flight, the parts are in some degree destitute, and so there is induced in them a trepidation and horrour. Francis Bacon, Natural History.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Horrour in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Horrour in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

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