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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
terror/ˈterə(r)/

▶noun

1 extreme fear.
■ the use of terror to intimidate people.

■ a cause of terror.

■ (the Terror) the period of the French Revolution when the ruling Jacobin faction ruthlessly executed anyone considered a threat to their regime.

2 (also holy terror) informal a person causing trouble or annoyance.

– origin ME: from OFr. terrour, from L. terror, from terrere ‘frighten’.

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