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horrification|hɒrɪfɪˈkeɪʃən| [n. of action f. L. horrificāre to horrify: see -ation.] The action of horrifying or condition of being horrified; concr. something horrifying.
1800M. Edgeworth Belinda (1831) I. iii. 60, I could almost have thought of ‘Sir Bertrand’, or of some German horrifications. 1827J. F. Cooper Prairie II. vii. 105 Among the horrifications and circumventions of Indian warfare! 1891G. Meredith One of our Conq. I. viii. 139 To the horrification of the prim. |