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horrendous (adj.)
1650s, from Latin
horrendus
"dreadful, fearful, terrible," literally "to be shuddered at," gerundive of
horrere
"to bristle with fear, shudder" (see
horror
). Earlier form in English was
horrend
(mid-15c.).
