Exhorrate
/ɪɡˈhɔːr.eɪt/noun
To shudder at, dread, or regard with abhorrence; an obsolete or rare verb.
Did you know?Exhorrate belongs to the same ancient fear vocabulary that produced horror: its Latin ancestor described the physical act of bristling or shuddering before it came to mean dread.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*ǵʰers-
“To bristle, stand on end, or shiver with fear”
Ancient Latin
Latin
horrēre
“To bristle, tremble, or shudder”
Classical Latin
Latin
exhorrēre
“To shudder at, recoil from, or dread”
Early Modern English
English
exhorrate
“To abhor or regard with extreme dread”
Modern English
English
exhorrate
“A rare or obsolete verb meaning to dread, abhor, or shudder at”