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noun

Terror n.

Extreme fear; fear that agitates body and mind; violent dread; fright. "Terror seized the rebel host."

That which excites dread; a cause of extreme fear. "Those enormous terrors of the Nile." "Rulers are not a terror to good works." "There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats." Note: Terror is used in the formation of compounds which are generally self-explaining: as, terror-fraught, terror-giving, terror-smitten, terror-stricken, terror-struck, and the like.

King of terrors, death.

Reign of Terror. (French Hist.) See in Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.

Synonyms: Alarm; fright; consternation; dread; dismay. See Alarm.

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Etymology of 'Terror'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Terror" Quotes from Famous Books

... is extended and inflamed. Again the spirit, if there is fear, is perturbed and made cold, generates tremors and terrors and pallors in the body. Pallor, by the heat coursing into the interior ruddiness leaves the surface. Tremor, because being, confined within the spirit it shakes the body. Terror, because when the moisture is congealed the hairs are contracted and stand on end. All of these Homer clearly indicates when he says (I. ...

— Essays and Miscellanies - The Complete Works Volume 3 • Plutarch

... of plain sense, whose spirit has not been broken to this creed by education or terror, will think that it is not necessary for us to travel to heathen countries, to learn how mournfully the human mind may ...

— History of American Literature • Reuben Post Halleck

... adjoining seat. She had decided suddenly to accompany Darrow to Paris, had even persuaded him to wait for a later train in order that they might travel together. She had an intense longing to be with him, an almost morbid terror of losing sight of him for a moment: when he jumped out of the train and ran back along the platform to buy a newspaper for her she felt as though she should never see him again, and shivered with the cold misery of her last journey to Paris, when she ...

— The Reef • Edith Wharton

... story of an early encounter of Therese and Beethoven. She was a pupil who felt for him that mingled love and terror he instilled in women. One bitterly cold and stormy day he came to give the young countess her lesson; she was especially eager to please him, but grew so anxious that her playing went all askew. He was ...

— The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 1 • Rupert Hughes

... started to run straight forward, and then turned like lightning and sped back the way she had come, enveloped in a sudden icy terror. ...

— Flappers and Philosophers • F. Scott Fitzgerald

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