horrent
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of horrent
1660–70; < Latin horrent- (stem of horrēns, present participle of horrēre to stand on end, bristle with fear), equivalent to horr- ( see horrendous) + -ent- -ent
Example Sentences
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When want assails his solitary shed, When dire distraction's horrent eye-ball glares, Seen 'mid the myriad of tumultuous cares That shower their shafts on his devoted head.
From Poetic Sketches by Gent, Thomas
The reading in the MS. is, "Youthful knights, and barons bold, With dazzling helm, and horrent spear."
From Select Poems of Thomas Gray by Carruthers, Robert
Impregnable their front appears, All horrent with projected spears, Whose polished points before them shine, From flank to flank, one brilliant line, Bright as the breakers' splendors run Along the billows to the sun.
From McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader by McGuffey, William Holmes
But higher than all its horrent height of shade Shone sovereign, seen by light itself had made, Above the woes of all the world, above Life, sin, and death, his myriad-minded love.
From Astrophel and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne, Vol. VI by Swinburne, Algernon Charles
I remember the horrent couch grass that waved its ragged tresses above me, and how I told myself that the range of the sand dunes were great lions with bristling manes marching along to Exmouth.
From A West Country Pilgrimage by Phillpots, Eden
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