Word Meanings - HORRIFICATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database
That which causes horror. Miss Edgeworth.
Related words: (words related to HORRIFICATION)
- WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town. - WHICH
the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who. - HORROR
horrere to bristle, to shiver, to tremble with cold or dread, to be 1. A bristling up; a rising into roughness; tumultuous movement. Such fresh horror as you see driven through the wrinkled waves. Chapman. 2. A shaking, shivering, or shuddering, - HORROR-STRUCK
Horror-stricken; horrified. M. Arnold. - HORROR-STICKEN
Struck with horror; horrified. Blank and horror-stricken faces. C. Kingsley.