Noun

(en noun)

(hypercorrect)

* 2000 November 19, " somebody9867]" (username), "[http://groups.google.co.uk/group/misc.immigration.canada/msg/c7fb090a62b05d13?q=horrour Re: in-canada marriage vs overseas application?]", in [http://groups.google.co.uk/group/misc.immigration.canada/topics?hl=en misc.immigration.canada, Usenet :

In the States this is really a horrour film theme – but may be, not that horrible in Canada.

* 2001 June 1, " Eric Jablow]" (username), "[http://groups.google.co.uk/group/alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer.creative/msg/19e6b2401f20ffa8?q=horrour FIC: Community 8/8]", in [http://groups.google.co.uk/group/alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer.creative/topics?hl=en alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer.creative, Usenet :

My friends and I are fine, but we shall never forget our horrour .

* 2002 August 21, " Teilhard Knight]" (username), "[http://groups.google.co.uk/group/alt.support.depression/msg/44fc83788f027a47?q=horrour Elephant's brain is not dangerous]", in [http://groups.google.co.uk/group/alt.support.depression/topics?hl=en alt.support.depression, Usenet :

In the first place, elephant’s brain only brought to the general attention something that was there for the general attention anyhow. In the second place, if that sets the posters of the original posts to shriek in horrour and retire, I do not think it is so much elephant’s brain so responsible of that reaction.

Noun

(en noun)

An intense painful emotion of fear or repugnance.

An intense dislike or aversion; an abhorrence.

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, title= , chapter=1 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 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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, 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.’ }}

* 1947 , re-release poster, tagline:

A Nightmare of Horror !

(informal) An intense anxiety or a nervous depression; this sense can also be spoken or written as the horrors .