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terror

[ter´or]

an attack of extreme fear or dread.

night t's (sleep t's) pavor nocturnus.

terror

(tĕr′ər)

1. Intense, overpowering fear.

2. Violence committed or threatened by a group, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political goals.

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And passing on farther, came to a plaine containing in breadth almost a mile, and in length two miles, set full of gallowes, gibbets, wheels[,] stakes, and other instruments of terrour, death, and torture; all hanging full of the dead carkases of men, women, and children, thereupon executed, in number (as was deemed) about twentie thousand.

The Admiral's Vayvode of 1598

The chilling solution was a `loving terrour' intended `not only to subdue these people, but to convert them' (71).

Strangers to that Land: British Perceptions of Ireland from the Reformation to the Famine

"On the 3rd of September 1651" (Poems, 82-83) is more equivocal about the Royalist cause, describing the "terrour" (1.

Katherine Philips as political playwright: "The Songs Between the Acts" in Pompey

superiority at raising "Pity and Terrour." At least among the

Whose Restoration, whose republic? Charles Gildon's manuscript version and the remaking of Nathaniel Lee's Lucius Junius Brutus

Looke (forreiners) do not the lofty Spires, And these cloud-kissing Turrets that you see, Strike deadly terrour in your wounded soules?