Noun

(uncountable) Intense dread, fright, or fear.

(countable) Specific instance of being intensely terrified.

* 1794 , (William Godwin),

The terrors with which I was seizedwere extreme.

(uncountable) The action or quality of causing dread; terribleness, especially such qualities in narrative fiction.

* 1921', (Edith Birkhead), ''The tale of '''terror : a study of the Gothic romance

(countable) Something or someone that causes such fear.

* 1841 , (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

The terrors of the storm

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Noun

(en noun)

Extreme aversion or detestation; the feeling of utter dislike or loathing.

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, year=1818 , author=Mary Shelley , title=Frankenstein , chapter=9 , url=http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/shelley/mary/s53f/chapter9.html , passage=My abhorrence of this fiend cannot be conceived.}}

(obsolete, historical) An expression of abhorrence, in particular any of the parliamentary addresses dictated towards Charles II.

A person or thing that is loathsome; a detested thing.