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‖ pavor
[L. pavor quaking fear.]
†a. (See quot.) Obs. rare—0.
1656Blount Glossogr., Pavor, great fear and dread.
b. pavor nocturnus [L. nocturnus nocturnal], a sudden and inexplicable terror which may afflict a sleeping person, esp. a child, in the night; = night-terror s.v. night n. 14; similarly pavor diurnus [L. diurnus belonging to the day] (see quot. 1940).
[1848Dunglison Dict. Med. Sci. (ed. 7) 634/1 Pavores nocturni seu dormientium, fear during sleep.] 1889Albany Med. Ann. June 200 The victim of night terrors, or pavor nocturnus, experiences an awful, unpleasant, terror stricken disturbance of the mind. 1889J. Thomson tr. Henoch's Lect. Children's Dis. I. 241 One of the rare cases of pavor diurnus which I have seen affected the son of an actor (7 years old), a nervous, anaemic, delicate child. 1900Lancet 3 Feb. 292/1 Two cases of pavor diurnus..have recently been under my care. 1915J. N. Hall Borderline Dis. I. iii. 96 Nightmare in adults and pavor nocturnus in young children are vivid dreams with sensations of oppression in the chest, of horror, and inability to escape some impending catastrophe. 1927W. P. Lucas Mod. Pract. Pediatr. ii. xii. 698 Pavor diurnus is more rarely seen than night terrors but is more significant of a disorder of the nervous system. 1940Hinsie & Shatzky Psychiatric Dict. 406/1 Pavor diurnus, fear reactions which occur in the young child during the afternoon nap, similar to night terrors but not so frequently taking place as the latter. 1950J. Strachey tr. Freud's Totem & Taboo iv. 128 Phobias of this type..are, in my opinion, at least as common in childhood as pavor nocturnus. 1966Sci. & Psychoanal. IX. 176 The purposiveness of the rumination is seen in the fact that..the event does ultimately become commonplace... The suggestion is strong that the pavor nocturnus of the child may have a similar accustomizing function. |