Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Bristling with horror; shuddering.
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Examples
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I agree in the main with A. B.; but can, of course, make none but horrescent reference to his treatment of the smaller philosophers.
A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II) Augustus De Morgan 1838
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