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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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 William Holmes McGuffey
Impregnable their front appears, All horrent with projected spears.
From Poems Every Child Should Know The What-Every-Child-Should-Know-Library by Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth) Burt
She possessed a certain native insight which revealed many of the horrent inequalities of her pathway; but she found it so cruel and disenchanting a faculty, that blindness was infinitely preferable.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 by Various
Above them the rocks rose wild and horrent, apparently inaccessible, but the keen eye of our Hubert detected one path, a mere goat path, used perhaps also by shepherds.
From The House of Walderne A Tale of the Cloister and the Forest in the Days of the Barons' Wars by A. D. (Augustine David) Crake
Shorty stretched on tiptoe, brought his eye to the level of the bar, and gazed upon the horrent head of Bailey.
From Pardners by Rex Ellingwood Beach
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