Forebode vs Horror - What's the difference?
forebode | horror |
To predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device).
* (Nathaniel Hawthorne), The Scarlet Letter
To be prescient of (some ill or misfortune); to have an inward conviction of, as of a calamity which is about to happen; to augur despondingly.
* Tennyson
* Middleton
* H. James
(obsolete) prognostication; presage
An intense painful emotion of fear or repugnance.
An intense dislike or aversion; an abhorrence.
* {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
, title=
, chapter=1 A genre of fiction, meant to evoke a feeling of fear and suspense.
* {{quote-news
, year = 1898
, date = July 3
, newspaper = Philadelphia Inquirer
, page = 22
, passage = The Home Magazine for July (Binghamton and New York) contains ‘The Patriots' War Chant,’ a poem by Douglas Malloch; ‘The Story of the War,’ by Theodore Waters; ‘A Horseman in the Sky,’ by Ambrose Bierce, with a portrait of Mr. Bierce, whose tales of horror are horrible of themselves, not as war is horrible; ‘A Yankee Hero,’ by W. L. Calver; ‘The Warfare of the Future,’ by Louis Seemuller; ‘Florence Nightingale,’ by Susan E. Dickenson, with two rare portraits, etc.
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* {{quote-news
, year = 1917
, date = February 11
, newspaper = New York Times
, section = Book reviews
, page = 52
, passage = Those who enjoy horror , stories overflowing with blood and black mystery, will be grateful to Richard Marsh for writing ‘The Beetle.’
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* 1947 , re-release poster, tagline:
(informal) An intense anxiety or a nervous depression; this sense can also be spoken or written as the horrors .
As nouns the difference between forebode and horror
is that forebode is (obsolete) prognostication; presage while horror is .As a verb forebode
is to predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device).forebode
English
Alternative forms
* forbode (much less commonly used)Verb
(forebod)- There can be, if I forebode aright, no power, short of the Divine mercy, to disclose, whether by uttered words, or by type or emblem, the secrets that may be buried with a human heart.
- His heart forebodes a mystery.
- Sullen, desponding, and foreboding nothing but wars and desolation, as the certain consequence of Caesar's death.
- I have a sort of foreboding about him.
Noun
See also
* bodehorror
English
Alternative forms
* horrourNoun
(en noun)citation, passage=“Mrs. Yule's chagrin and horror at what she called her son's base ingratitude knew no bounds ; at first it was even thought that she would never get over it. […]”}}
- A Nightmare of Horror !