terror
see also: Terror
Etymology
Terror
Etymology
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see also: Terror
Etymology
From late Middle English terrour, from Old French terreur, from Latin terror, from terrēre, from itc-ola tr̥reō, from itc-pro *trozeō, from Proto-Indo-European *tre-, *tres- ("to tremble").
Pronunciation Nounterror
- (countable, uncountable) Intense dread, fright, or fear.
- Synonyms: Thesaurus:fear
- 1794, William Godwin, Things as they are; or, The adventures of Caleb:
- The terrors with which I was seized […] were extreme.
- 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC ↗:
- "How thinkest thou that I rule this people? I have but a regiment of guards to do my bidding, therefore it is not by force. It is by terror. My empire is of the imagination."
- (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, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
- The terrors of the storm
- 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC ↗:
- A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well. Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand.
- (uncountable) Terrorism.
- a terror attack
- the War on Terror
- (pathology, countable) A night terror.
- (Philippines, slang) A strict teacher that fails most of the students.
- French: terreur, effroi
- German: Schrecken, Grauen, schreckliche Furcht
- Portuguese: terror
- Russian: у́жас
- Spanish: terror
- French: terrorisme
- Russian: тера́кт
Terror
Etymology
Proper noun form of terror. Translation of French Terreur, as coined by the Thermidorian Reaction
Proper noun- (politics, history, usually with the) The Reign of Terror during the French Revolution.
- (politics, history, usually with the) Any specific one of several historical reigns of terror.
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