Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Sounding dreadfully; uttering or emitting a terrible sound.

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

  • adjective obsolete Sounding dreadfully; uttering a terrible sound.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective obsolete Sounding dreadfully; uttering a terrible sound.

Etymologies

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Latin horrisonus; horrere to be horrible + sonus a sound.

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Examples

  • The horrisonous whiz of the ostrich eggs from Kamfers Dam was heard again, and back to the "Lift" flew the ladies.

    The Siege of Kimberley T. Phelan

  • Service -- that the hundred thousand ears adorning the anatomy of the human population were first shocked by the horrisonous banshee wail of the hooters.

    The Siege of Kimberley T. Phelan

  • Then did the mother's rage burst forth without restraint, eloquent, horrisonous.

    Denzil Quarrier George Gissing 1880

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