horror – English noun declension

English noun forms of horror

Noun: horror
Singularhorror
Pluralhorrors

Sample Sentences

  • Their swarthy Hosts wou'd darken all our Plains, / Doubling the native Horror of the War, / And making Death more grim. [1712, Joseph Addison, Cato: A tragedy, published 1750, page 44:]
  • I saw many horrors during the war.
  • 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. [1898 July 3, Philadelphia Inquirer, page 22:]
  • Could there be stories with more horror than these? [2009, Devin Watson, Horror Screenwriting:]
  • “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. […] ” [1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Tragedy in Dartmoor Terrace”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:]
  • Those who enjoy horror, stories overflowing with blood and black mystery, will be grateful to Richard Marsh for writing ‘The Beetle.’ [1917 February 11, New York Times, Book reviews, page 52:]
  • A well-received Johnny Fuller R & B horror called "Haunted House." [1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 156:]
  • […] there were hastily produced B movies, such as the peplums, the spaghetti westerns, the detective stories, the horrors. [2006, Pierluigi on Cinema:]
  • The neighbour's kids are a pack of little horrors!
  • `My belief is that he had the horrors without knowin' it.' [1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 53:]

Etymology

From Middle English horer, horrour, from Old French horror, from Latin horror (“a bristling, a shaking, trembling as with cold or fear, terror”), from horrere (“to bristle, shake, be terrified”). Displaced native Old English ōga. See: Middle English Nouns 'horer', Latin Nouns 'horror'.

Verbs referencing "horror"

Dutch Nouns horror, German Nouns Horror.