Definition of "terrour" []

• Obsolete form of terror. (noun)
• Common misspelling of terror. (noun)

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• "Thus, Justice James Wilson — a leading drafter of the U.S. Constitution, and the first prominent American legal commentator — described the prohibition as covering “a man arming himself with dangerous and unusual weapons, in such a manner, as will naturally diffuse a terrour among the people.”"
• "Again, however, and more distinctly, it reached her; doubt then ceased, and terrour next to horrour took its place."
• "Once more in the appropriate apartment of her Father, where all her earliest scenes of gayest felicity had passed, but which, of late, she had only approached with terrour, only entered to weep, she experienced a delight almost awful in the renovation of her pristine confidence, and fearless ease."