Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of horrifying; anything that causes horror.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare That which causes horror.

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  • noun That which causes horror.

Etymologies

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horror +‎ -ification, alternatively horrific +‎ -ation.

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Examples

  • I am talking Satan killing Santa Claus then destroying Disneyland while drinking the last beer ever kind of horrification.

    Is that your hand in my pocket? Tyler 2009

  • Fanny — but Zara made no bones of her horrification.

    Ultima Thule 2003

  • Park, to the infinite horrification of the honest mountaineers.

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 271, September 1, 1827 Various

  • She was awake to his guileful arts, and sailed along with him, hailing his phrases, if he shot a good one; prankishly exposing a flexible nature, that took its holiday thus in a grinding world, among maskers, to the horrification of the prim.

    One of Our Conquerors — Volume 1 George Meredith 1868

  • She flung the gauntlet at externally venerable Institutions; and she had a hearing, where horrification, execration, the foul Furies of Conservatism would in a shortly antecedent day have been hissing and snakily lashing, hounding her to expulsion.

    One of Our Conquerors — Complete George Meredith 1868

  • She flung the gauntlet at externally venerable Institutions; and she had a hearing, where horrification, execration, the foul Furies of Conservatism would in a shortly antecedent day have been hissing and snakily lashing, hounding her to expulsion.

    One of Our Conquerors — Volume 5 George Meredith 1868

  • She was awake to his guileful arts, and sailed along with him, hailing his phrases, if he shot a good one; prankishly exposing a flexible nature, that took its holiday thus in a grinding world, among maskers, to the horrification of the prim.

    One of Our Conquerors — Complete George Meredith 1868

  • She flung the gauntlet at externally venerable Institutions; and she had a hearing, where horrification, execration, the foul Furies of Conservatism would in a shortly antecedent day have been hissing and snakily lashing, hounding her to expulsion.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • She was awake to his guileful arts, and sailed along with him, hailing his phrases, if he shot a good one; prankishly exposing a flexible nature, that took its holiday thus in a grinding world, among maskers, to the horrification of the prim.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • Now our hero, Erling the Bold, was one of those who could see beyond his time, and who became almost prophetically wise; that is to say, he was fond of tracing causes onwards to their probable effects, to the amusement of the humorous, the amazement of the stupid, and the horrification of the few who, even in those days of turmoil, trembled at the idea of "change"!

    Erling the Bold 1859

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