Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Terror \Ter"ror\, n. [L. terror, akin to terrere to frighten,
for tersere; akin to Gr. ? to flee away, dread, Skr. tras to
tremble, to be afraid, Russ. triasti to shake: cf. F.
terreur. Cf. {Deter}.]
1. Extreme fear; fear that agitates body and mind; violent
dread; fright.
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Terror seized the rebel host. --Milton.
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2. That which excites dread; a cause of extreme fear.
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Those enormous terrors of the Nile. --Prior.
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Rulers are not a terror to good works. --Rom. xiii.
3.
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There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats.
--Shak.
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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.
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{King of terrors}, death. --Job xviii. 14.
{Reign of Terror}. (French Hist.) See in Dictionary of Noted
Names in Fiction.
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Syn: Alarm; fright; consternation; dread; dismay. See
{Alarm}.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
reign of terror
n 1: any period of brutal suppression thought to resemble the
Reign of Terror in France
2: the historic period (1793-94) during the French Revolution
when thousands were executed; "the Reign of the Bourbons
ended and the Reign of Terror began"
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